...Welsh's novel is as quick and dark as a child's nightmare....[Welsh] fictionalizes Marlowe's last days with novelistic wit and interpretive imagination. Welsh is no academic....But every line of TAMBURLAINE MUST DIE is informed by a thorough grasp of not only the day-to-day of Marlowe's life but also a sympathetic willingness to imagine the in-between....Her novelist's impulse to trade fact for fiction and the known for the felt is a perfect fit with the aggrandizing, enigmatic and story-haunted playwright.
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