The Reckoning

Author: Charles Nicholl

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Price : $36.99 NZD
ISBN : 9780099437475
Publisher : vinteb
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Weight (g) : 0.42
Publication date : 01 October 2002
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Author : Charles Nicholl
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Pages : 432
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In 1593 the controversial young playwright Christopher Marlowe was stabbed to death in a Deptford lodging-house. The circumstances were shady, and the official account - a violent quarrel over a bill - has long been questioned. This is a story of the Elizabethan underworld.

Author description

Charles Nicholl has written two travel books, The Fruit Palace and Borderlines; a study of Elizabethan alchemy, The Chemical Theatre, and a biography of the pamphleteer Thomas Nashe, A Cup of News. His work has appeared in Granta, Rolling Stone and the Independent.