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.
- ISBN10 0786711523
- ISBN13 9780786711529
- Publish Date 21 March 2003 (first published 6 May 1993)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc
- Edition 2nd ed.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 272
- Language English