num_pages: 288
description: Set in Elizabethan England, Burgess's first novel for four years centres on the life of Christopher Marlowe, who was killed in suspicious circumstances in a tavern brawl in Deptford 400 years ago. It portrays a theatre genius riven by sexual and political conflicts.
language: English
title: A Dead Man in Deptford
titlecomplete: A Dead Man in Deptford
characters: Thomas Walsingham, Christopher Marlowe, Francis Walsingham
genres: Historical, 20th Century, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, LGBT, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Tudor Period, British Literature
ratings_count: 1422
places: Deptford, London
publisher: Vintage