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Article: A Dead Man in Deptford.
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- Commonweal
- Article date:
- February 11, 1994
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In one of Anthony Burgess's (1917-1993) many comic novels, One Hand Clapping (1972), a woman observes her husband answering quiz questions about books on a television knowledge bowl. For a prize of a thousand pounds, he identifies a group of Renaissance playwrights. While the audience applauds his unlikely success, his wife is startled to see ghostly Dekker, Jonson, and Massinger, silent and dignified, wearing little gold earrings and ruffs. No one in the studio, not even the winning contestant, knows the plays or the men, who have been reduced to revenants conjured up by trivia.
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