Publication

1995 - Carroll & Graf Publishers

Language

English

Word Count

68,000 words, Guess

Page Count

272 pages

Identifiers

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.

Description

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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  • A Dead Man in DeptfordCarroll & Graf Publishers1995-01-01
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