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A Dead Man in Deptford

by Anthony Burgess

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First published: 1993 3 languages ISBN: 0786701927
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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.
Subjects
Dramatists Dramatists, English English Dramatists Fiction Biography Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593 -- Fiction. Social life and customs Dramatists -- Fiction. Deptford (London, England) -- Fiction. Fiction, historical

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