"Composed to placate kind readers of The clockwork testament, or Enderby's end, who objected to my casually killing my hero."

"Anthony Burgess writes that Enderby's Dark Lady was 'composed to placate kind readers of The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End, who objected to my casually killing my hero.'
The latest Enderby novel begins and ends with some surprising episodes in the life of William Shakespeare, subject of one of the dedicated poet's rare ventures into prose literature. In between, Enderby finds himself in Terrebasse, Indiana, taking part in an American musical based on the life of the Bard and falling desperately and hopelessly in love with his leading lady, the astonishingly beautiful black actress, April Elgar. From one hilarious disaster to the next, Enderby's Dark Lady is Burgess at his most brilliant, combining knockabout comedy, social satire and verbal pyrotechnics in a mixture as rich as an Elizabethan comedy." -- Inside front cover