May well be,' the narrator remarks of Marlowe at the outset, 'that plain English cannot encompass a life so various, tortured and contradictory.' Anthony Burgess wouldn't have wanted it any other way. The author's love of literary puzzles is also apparent in his choice of narrator, a small-time actor whose identity can be ascertained only by reference to the Shakespeare First Folio of 1623. Burgess's legendary intoxication with language and wordplay is very much in evidence as he evokes the raw, freewheeling If you still cant find a library, there are a couple possible reasons. Anthony Burgess, who died in November 1993 shortly after finishing this, his final work, is not the first novelist to put forth a theory about Marlowe's death,īut 'A Dead Man in Deptford' is certainly among the most entertaining of these speculations. On orders from Government officials for whom he had worked as a spy. Faustus' with a single stroke, had acted in self-defense, although speculation has persisted for 400 years that Marlowe was murdered, possibly Royal inquest found that Ingram Frizer, the man who killed the author of 'Dr. 137 works Add another Sorted by: Most Editions First. On May 30, 1593, after a day of revelry with three acquaintances in a Deptford tavern, the English playwright Christopher Marlowe was stabbed to death during an argument over who should pay the bill. Author of A Dead Man in Deptford, M/F, Here comes everbody, Any old iron, Flame into Being, A Mouthful of Air, Language made plain, Re Joyce. May 28, 1995, Sunday, Late Edition - FinalĪ DEAD MAN IN DEPTFORD By Anthony Burgess.

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