A Dead Man in Deptford
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Word Count
68,000 words, Guess
Page Count
272 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL32638026M
- ISBN-100786701927
- OCLC Control Number32241420
- Internet Archivedeadmanindeptfor00burg_0
- Library of Congress Control Number95010410
Classifications
- LCCPR6052.U638D42 1995
- DDC823/.914
Description
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.
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A novelization of the life of the 16th Century playwright, Christopher Marlowe, portraying him as a spy for Elizabeth I's government in its war with Catholics. Lots of color on Elizabethan London, the court, the intrigues, the theater, the slums. The author's last book before his death, it comes 30 years after his Nothing Like the Sun, a novel on Shakespeare.
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