Tamburlaine Must Die

A “vivid portrait of the beautiful, passionate, ever-witty Marlowe . . . A phantasmagoric Elizabethan thriller” from the author of The Cutting Room ( Los Angeles Times ). 1593 and London is a city on edge. Under threat from plague and war, it’s a desperate place where strangers are unwelcome and severed heads grin from spikes on Tower Bridge. Playwright, poet, spy and man of prodigious appetites, Christopher Marlowe is working on his latest literary effort and enjoying the English countryside at