The Reckoning

Informationen zum Autor Charles Nicholl Klappentext In 1593, the brilliant and controversial young playwright Christopher Marlowe was stabbed to death in a Deptford lodging house. The circumstances were shady, the official account - a violent quarrel over the bill, or 'recknynge' - long regarded as dubious. For the first time tracing Marlowe's shadowy political and intelligence dealings, Charles Nicholl uncovers critical new evidence about that fatal day. Also providing an enthralling revelation of the extraordinary underworld of Elizabethan crime and espionage, the 'secret theatre', Nicholl penetrates four centuries of obscurity to expose a complex and chilling story of entrapment and betrayal. Zusammenfassung The circumstances were shady, the official account - a violent quarrel over the bill, or 'recknynge' - long regarded as dubious. For the first time tracing Marlowe's shadowy political and intelligence dealings, Charles Nicholl uncovers critical new evidence about that fatal day.

Product details

• Authors: Charles Nicholl, Charles Nicoll
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 03.10.2002
• Subject: Non-fiction book; Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries
• EAN: 9780099437475
• ISBN: 978-0-09-943747-5
• Pages: 608
• Dimensions (packing): 12.9 x 19.8 x 3.4 cm
• Subjects: History, Politics, Cultural Studies, European History, Biography: general, biography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Historical, TRUE CRIME / Murder / General, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), Christopher Marlowe, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Historical crime and mysteries, Crime and criminology, Biography: philosophy and social sciences, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, Betrayal, Espionage, 1558–1603 (Elizabethan period), Biographies, British History, Elizabethan England, james tait black prize 1992, Historical Biographies, murder investigation, historical mystery, the renaissance, history of english literature, london 17th century, being a playwright