Tamburlaine the Great: Parts 1 and 2University of Nebraska Press, 1967 - 205 pages "Arguably the single-most important play of the Elizabethan era, Tamburlaine did more than any other to transform an insignificant form of public entertainment, barely distinguishable from the juggling, fencing, and animal-baiting with which it shared its performance space, into an art of national importance. . . . Tamburlaine cranks the excitements of language and spectacle to an unprecedented pitch, not simply to indulge the fantasies of the audience but as an exemplary demonstration of poetry's dangerous potency."-The New York Review of Books. Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) has been called the founder of English drama and the perfecter of dramatic blank verse. He is known as a poet and translator of Lucan and Ovid, and as a guide and leader for Shakespeare and the other Elizabethan poets and dramatists. Tamburlaine the Great was his most ambitious work and the first play written in English blank verse. John Davies Jump was professor of English at the University of Manchester. |
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Africa Agydas Almeda AMYRAS Anippe Argier arms army Asia Babylon Bajazeth Basso battle behold Bithynia blood Boötes brigandines CALLAPINE Calyphas Captain Casane CELEBINUS chariot Christians Christopher Marlowe conquering COSROE crown cursed Damascus death divine Zenocrate doth Dyce earth Ellis-Fermor emperor Enchas'd Enter fair Zenocrate father fear fight fire fury GAZELLUS GOVERNOR OF BABYLON haste hath heart heaven hell honor host Jerusalem Jove KING OF FEZ KING OF JERUSALEM king of Persia live looks lord Mahomet majesty Marlowe Marlowe's martial Meander Menaphon Messenger mighty Tamburlaine MYCETES Natolia OLYMPIA ORCANES Ortelius Ortygius PERDICAS Pioners pity proud queen royal S.D. Exeunt scourge Scythian Shakespeare's Sigismund slave SOLDAN OF EGYPT soldiers Soria soul stars sweet sword Tamburlaine Techelles tent theater thee Theridamas Thou shalt thousand horse town Trebizon Turk Turkish unto Uribassa Usumcasane viceroys victory villain walls wound wrath Zabina Zenocrate