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Re-imagines the riotous life and suspicious death of Christopher Marlowe. Poet, lover and spy, Marlowe must negotiate through the gumph placed upon him by the theatre, Queen and country. Burgess brings this figure to life and pungently evokes Elizabethan England.
Synopsis
Poet, lover and spy, Christopher Marlowe must negotiate the pressures placed upon him by theatre, Queen and country. This title re-imagines the riotous life and suspicious death of Christopher Marlowe. It brings this dazzling figure to life and pungently evokes Elizabethan England.