A Dead Man in Deptford - Softcover

"A memorial not only to a great poet but also to a distinguished, consistently surprising modern writer." "A brilliantly effective prose style [combining] Elizabethan and modern English." "Among the most entertaining speculations about Christopher Marlowe's death." "A daring romp through history, theology, sex, language, and espionage."

With A Dead Man in Deptford, Burgess concluded his literary career to overwhelming acclaim for his re-creation of the Elizabethan poet Christopher Marlowe. In lavish, pitch-perfect, and supple, readable prose, Burgess matches his splendid Shakespeare novel, Nothing Like the Sun. The whole world of Elizabethan Englandfrom the intrigues of the courtroom, through the violent streets of London, to the glory of the theatercomes alive in this joyous celebration of the life of Christopher Marlowe, murdered in suspicious circumstances in a tavern brawl in Deptford more than four hundred years ago."