The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe

ISBN-13: 9780099437475 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 608 str.

Charles Nicholl

Opis

This is an investigation of the killing of Christopher Marlowe, tracing his shadowy political dealings, his involvement in covert intelligence work, and the charges of heresy and homosexuality against him. Critical new evidence is uncovered about his three companions on that last day in Deptford and about the sinister role of the informer Richard Baines. The Reckoning is also a revelation of the whole extraordinary underworld of Elizabethan crime and espioinage, a secret theatre in which nearly every historical figure familiar to us, from hack poet to queen's high minister, seems to have played a part.