- Dramatists, Dramatists, English, English Dramatists, Fiction
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.
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Nostalgic, classical in form, epic and meticulous.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- rawmeticulous
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Anthony Burgess
- First published
- 1993
- Pages
- 273
- Publisher
- Carroll & Graf Publishers, ISIS Publishing, VINTAGE (RAND)
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- German, English, French
- ISBN
- 9782246486312
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John Anthony Burgess Wilson, who published under the name Anthony Burgess, was an English writer and composer. Although Burgess was primarily a comic writer, his dystopian satire *A Clockwork Orange* remains his best-known novel. In 1971, it was adapted into a controversial film by Stanley Kubrick, which Burgess said was chiefly responsible for the popularity of the book. Burgess produced numerous other novels, including the Enderby quartet, and Earthly Powers. He wrote librettos and screenplays, including the 1977 television mini-series Jesus of Nazareth. He worked as a literary critic for several publications, including The Observer and The Guardian, and wrote studies of classic writers, n
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