num_pages: 272
description: 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 England—from the intrigues of the courtroom, through the violent streets of London, to the glory of the theater—comes 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.
language: English
title: A Dead Man in Deptford
titlecomplete: A Dead Man in Deptford (Burgess, Anthony)
characters: Thomas Walsingham, Christopher Marlowe, Francis Walsingham
genres: 20th Century, Historical, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, LGBT, Novels, Tudor Period, Classics, British Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 1422
places: Deptford, London
publisher: Da Capo Press