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A Crash-and-Burn Playwright's Life
From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19950618
Author:HEDY WEISS
A Dead Man in Deptford By Anthony Burgess. Carroll & Graf. $21. The Elizabethan playwright-poet Christopher Marlowe drank hard, ate badly, smoked furiously, engaged in promiscuous sex and rarely avoided a brawl. Not surprisingly, he died young - stabbed through the eye at age 29.
And that's not even the half of it.
In the darker years of his time, a period of tense, twisted power struggles for both church and state, Marlowe was as an amateur spy, more out of opportunism than commitment.
At a time when being a writer could be truly dangerous, he was a Cambridge-educated intellectual ...
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