Thirdly, as the title shows, he was brutally murdered at Deptford for reasons that are unclear, though Burgess indicates that it was for political reasons.īurgess traces Marlowe’s adult life from his time at Cambridge University up to his death, mixing in his playwriting activities and his spying activities, all done against a rich background of Elizabethan life and politics. Secondly, he worked for Sir Francis Walsingham, Queen Elizabeth’s spymaster and the spiritual forefather of MI5 (and, indeed, of the CIA and FBI), engaged in a variety of shady activities, generally but not always aimed at keeping the Catholics out of England. Burgess hints at this but does not make a big deal out of it. Firstly, it seems highly likely that he was a counterfeiter or, at least, involved in some way in counterfeiting. Christopher Marlowe was an Elizabethan playwright, a contemporary of Shakespeare but, as well as his plays, he is known for three things. And, frankly, this one is much more enjoyable than Nothing like the Sun. Home » England » Anthony Burgess » A Dead Man in Deptford Anthony Burgess: A Dead Man in DeptfordĪfter having done Shakespeare, it was almost inevitable that he would do Marlowe.
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