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Article: Cloak and Dagger
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- The Washington Post
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- May 28, 1995
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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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Transcript: Novelist Anthony Burgess Dies at 76 Today
NPR All Things Considered;
November 25, 1993 ;
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...00-00-0000 NOAH ADAMS, Host: Anthony Burgess, the British author best known for his book A ... NPR's Michael Goldfarb has this remembrance of Anthony Burgess. ANTHONY BURGESS: `What's it going to be then, eh? There was ...
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