A Dead Man in Deptford
by Anthony Burgess · 1993
Popularity 18
The whole of Elizabethan England--from the court and its intrigue to the theatre and its genius to London and its slums--is brilliantly recreated in this joyous celebration of the life of Christopher Marlowe, killed in highly suspicious circumstances in a tavern brawl in Deptford hundreds of years ago.
DramatistsDramatists, EnglishEnglish DramatistsFictionBiographyMarlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593 -- Fiction.Social life and customsDramatists -- Fiction.Deptford (London, England) -- Fiction.Fiction, historicalGreat britain, fictionEngland, fiction