A dead man in Deptford by Burgess, Anthony, 1917-1993. The whole world of Elizabethan England is brilliantly recreated in Anthony Burgesss new novel, a joyous celebration of the life of Christopher Marlowe. Set in Elizabethan England, Burgesss first novel for four years centres on the. Burgess brings this dazzling figure to life and pungently evokes Elizabethan England. A dead man in Deptford Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. A Dead Man in Deptford by Anthony Burgess - book cover, description. Poet, lover and spy, Marlowe must negotiate the pressures placed upon him by theatre, Queen and country. It is a clever, sexually explicit, fast-moving, full blooded yarn'Ī Dead Man in Deptford re-imagines the riotous life and suspicious death of Christopher Marlowe. 'One of the most productive, imaginative and risk-taking of writers. "A fast, funny, flawless recreation" (The Week, Hilary Mantel)
"Burgess's novel moves with relish through fights, blasphemy and buggery to high talk of mathematics and necromancy in Raleigh's alternative think-tank, all written in well-judged pastiche." (The Independent) It depicts the life and character of Christopher Marlowe, a renowned playwright of the Elizabethan era.
"If you want a Marlowe that breathes and an England that attacks the senses then you will find both in Anthony Burgess's astonishing final novel, A Dead Man in Deptford." (The Times) A Dead Man in Deptford is a 1993 novel by Anthony Burgess, the last to be published during his lifetime. "The story is intensely true to the surfaces and smells of Elizabethan London, and also Burgess's own final meditation on his great themes, the sexual and artistic impulses, and their end in death. "Legendary intoxication with language and wordplay is very much in evidence as he (Burgess) evokes the raw, freewheeling spirit of the Elizabethan age" (The New York Times)
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