Article: Cloak and Dagger

A DEAD MAN IN DEPTFORD

By Anthony Burgess

Carroll & Graf. 272 pp. $21

THE TWO GREATEST Elizabethan dramatists were both born in 1564, but William Shakespeare outlived Christopher Marlowe by more than two decades. Yet so precocious was Marlowe's talent that before his violent death at age 29 he had written at least six plays, among them "Dr. Faustus" and "Tamburlaine," perhaps the most famous lyric poem of his generation ("Come live with me, and be my love") and two parts of a gorgeous and erotic mini-epic, "Hero and Leander": "Where both deliberate, the love is slight;/ Whoever loved, that loved not at first sight?"

One might think that this was enough for a literary career that lasted ...

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