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A Dead Man in Deptford is a book written later in Anthony Burgess's life. It depicts the life and character of a young Christopher Marlowe. Marlowe is one of Englands greatest playwrights and credited for inventing free verse and teaching it to William Shakespeare.
Starting in Marlowes childhood, Burgess builds this period novel with serious detail to Elizabethan England. Marlowe's life as a homosexual may have had difficult consequences but perhaps not so great as being a classical playwright and a spy for Queen Elizabeth. In A Dead Man in Deptford, Marlowe is portrayed as a secretive, solitary and eventually isolated person. Burgess explores Marlowes sexual addiction and passion for the theater through a life with dangerous friends and companions.
"A Dead Man in Deptford"