A Dead Man in Deptford (1993)
A Dead Man in Deptford (1993)
by Anthony Burgess
Anthony Burgess is a masterful novelist whose playful sense of linguistics informs this wonderful novel that speculates about the life and death of Shakespeare's contemporary, the playwright Christopher Marlowe.
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Christopher Marlowe |
Burgess has steeped himself in the history and language of Elizabethan times, and the result is a completely successful evocation of that era in all its beauty and horror, with its philosophic adventurers bravely seeking truth and its dogmatic religious authorities plunging nations into war.
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Anthony Burgess |
Intellectually challenging and emotionally moving, this is one of the finest novels I have read in quite a while.
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