Tamburlaine

Author : Christopher Marlowe
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1967-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0803252714

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Tamburlaine the Great by Christopher Marlowe Pdf

"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.

Author : Christopher Marlowe
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408144459

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Tamburlaine by Christopher Marlowe Pdf

One of the smash hits of the late 1580s and 90s, Tamburlaine established blank verse as the poetic line of English Renaissance drama, Edward Alleyn as the first English star actor and Marlowe as one of the foremost playwrights of his time. The rise and fall of a Scythian peasant-warrior who conquers the Middle East and is struck down by illness after burning the books of the Koran is presented in two parts crammed with theatrical splendour and equally spectacular cruelty. Marlowe's original audiences were delighted with the blasphemous and ruthlessly ambitious hero; the introduction to this edition discusses the problems that such a character poses for modern audiences and highlights the undercurrents of the play that lead towards a more ironic interpretation.

Author : Christopher Marlowe
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408144466

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Tamburlaine by Christopher Marlowe Pdf

One of the smash hits of the late 1580s and 90s, Tamburlaine established blank verse as the poetic line of English Renaissance drama, Edward Alleyn as the first English star actor and Marlowe as one of the foremost playwrights of his time. The rise and fall of a Scythian peasant-warrior who conquers the Middle East and is struck down by illness after burning the books of the Koran is presented in two parts crammed with theatrical splendour and equally spectacular cruelty. Marlowe's original audiences were delighted with the blasphemous and ruthlessly ambitious hero; the introduction to this edition discusses the problems that such a character poses for modern audiences and highlights the undercurrents of the play that lead towards a more ironic interpretation.

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410359988

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A Study Guide for Christopher Marlowe's "Tamburlaine the Great" by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

A Study Guide for Christopher Marlowe's "Tamburlaine the Great," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.

Author : David McInnis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350082731

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Tamburlaine: A Critical Reader by David McInnis Pdf

Arden Early Modern Drama Guides offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Essays from leading international scholars give invaluable insight into the text by presenting a range of critical perspectives, making the books ideal companions for study and research. Key features include: Essays on the plays' critical and performance history A keynote essay on current research and thinking about the play A selection of new essays by leading scholars A survey of resources to direct students' further reading about the play in print and online The blockbuster Tamburlaine plays (1587) instantly established Marlowe's reputation for experimenting with subversive, outrageous and immoral material. The plays follow the meteoric rise of a Scythian shepherd-turned-warlord, whose conquests of eastern emperors soon sees him established as the most powerful man in the world. The visual tableaux featured in the plays are iconic. He uses his enemy Bajazeth as a footstool, and has other emperors pull his chariot like horses. He burns the Qur'an on stage. The plays were memorable, too, for how they sounded: they showcased the power and variability of iambic pentameter, the meter that Shakespeare would go on to perfect. No history of Shakespeare's theatre is complete without understanding the influence and significance of Marlowe's Tamburlaine plays. Tamburlaine: A Critical Reader offers the definitive introduction to these plays and new perspectives on these seminal works. It provides an overview of their reception on stage and by critics, and offers fresh insights into the teaching of these plays in the classroom.

Author : Geraldine McCaughrean
Publisher : Usborne Publishing Ltd
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781409582724

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Tamburlaine's Elephants by Geraldine McCaughrean Pdf

RUSTI is a Mongol warrior, fighting for the bloodthirsty Tamburlaine, Conqueror of the World. He intends to show the enemy neither fear nor mercy... until he comes face-to-face with his first elephant. KAVI is the elephant's rider. Captured by the terrifying Mongol Horde, he fears for his life. But the boy who takes him prisoner does not kill him. And soon it seems they might almost become ... friends. Then Rusti uncovers a terrible secret, and the unlikeliest of friendships is put to the ultimate test.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438116402

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Christopher Marlowe by Harold Bloom Pdf

A contemporary of Shakespeare, Marlowe's life was cut short when he died at the age of 29. Take a closer look at Tamburlaine Part I and II, The Jew of Malta, Dr. Faustus and Edward II.

Author : Lisa Hopkins
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0754662632

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The Cultural Uses of the Caesars on the English Renaissance Stage by Lisa Hopkins Pdf

Caesarian power was a crucial context in the Renaissance, as rulers in Europe, Russia and Turkey all sought to appropriate Caesarian imagery and authority, but it has been surprisingly little explored in scholarship. Analyzing plays by Shakespeare as well as other early modern dramatists, Lisa Hopkins explores the way in which the stories of the Caesars can be used to figure the stories of English rulers on the Renaissance stage.

Author : Ian McAdam
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0874136652

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The Irony of Identity by Ian McAdam Pdf

Engaging the theories of Heinz Kohut on the individual's struggle for "manliness" and personal wholeness, McAdam illustrates how two fundamental points of destabilization in Marlowe's life and work - his subversive treatment of Christian belief and his ambivalence toward his homosexuality - clarify the plays' interest in the struggle for self-authorization. The author posits a post-Freudian argument in favor of pre-Oedipal narcissistic pathology in Marlowe's plays, in contrast to Kuriyama's psychoanalytic study, Hammer or Anvil, which is Freudian in approach and concerned with Oedipal patterns.

Author : Leslie Spence
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89011041589

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Tamburlaine by Leslie Spence Pdf

Author : Martin Wiggins,Catherine Richardson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780199265725

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British Drama 1533-1642: A Catalogue by Martin Wiggins,Catherine Richardson Pdf

Volume 3 covers the years 1590-1597 and sees the start of Shakespeare's career as a dramatist.

Author : Claire M. L. Bourne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192588524

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Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England by Claire M. L. Bourne Pdf

Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England is the first book-length study of early modern English playbook typography. It tells a new history of drama from the period by considering the page designs of plays by Shakespeare and others printed between the end of the fifteenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth century. It argues that typography, broadly conceived, was used creatively by printers, publishers, playwrights, and other agents of the book trade to make the effects of theatricality—from the most basic (textually articulating a change in speaker) to the more complex (registering the kinesis of bodies on stage)—intelligible on the page. The coalescence of these experiments into a uniquely dramatic typography that was constantly responsive to performance effects made it possible for 'plays' to be marketed, collected, and read in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as a print genre distinct from all other genres of imaginative writing. It has been said, 'If a play is a book, it is not a play.' Typographies of Performance in Early Modern England shows that 'play' and 'book' were, in fact, mutually constitutive: it was the very bookishness of plays printed in early modern England that allowed them to be recognized by their earliest readers as plays in the first place.

Author : George L. Geckle
Publisher : Palgrave
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015019152886

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Tamburlaine and Edward II by George L. Geckle Pdf

Author : Arthur Lindley
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0874135885

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Hyperion and the Hobbyhorse by Arthur Lindley Pdf

"This book constructs a paradigm for the operation of subversive comedy - what Arthur Lindley, the author, calls the Augustinian carnivalesque - by examining some of the major texts of Ricardian and Elizabethan literature." "By identifying some common characteristics of these works, Lindley argues that they must be seen in terms of a continuous, fundamentally Augustinian, Christian culture that is marked by a pervasive anti-heroic comedy that interrogates the official secular order and the role-based social identities that comprise it. Underlying this is a common attitude of Christian skepticism and a common use of carnivalesque demystification of power. In this pattern of continuity, concern with subjectivity, the mysteries of the self, and the tension between inward consciousness and outward role long antedates, say, Hamlet. Subjection, in other words, is not an Elizabethan (or Shakespearean) invention, but a constant concern of Augustinian literature going back to Confessions."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Mathew R. Martin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317008385

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Tragedy and Trauma in the Plays of Christopher Marlowe by Mathew R. Martin Pdf

Contending that criticism of Marlowe’s plays has been limited by humanist conceptions of tragedy, this book engages with trauma theory, especially psychoanalytic trauma theory, to offer a fresh critical perspective within which to make sense of the tension in Marlowe’s plays between the tragic and the traumatic. The author argues that tragedies are trauma narratives, narratives of wounding; however, in Marlowe’s plays, a traumatic aesthetics disrupts the closure that tragedy seeks to enact. Martin’s fresh reading of Massacre at Paris, which is often dismissed by critics as a bad tragedy, presents the play as deliberately breaking the conventions of the tragic genre in order to enact a traumatic aesthetics that pulls its audience into one of the early modern period’s most notorious collective traumatic events, the massacre of French Huguenots in Paris in 1572. The chapters on Marlowe’s six other plays similarly argue that throughout Marlowe’s drama tragedy is held in tension with-and disrupted by-the aesthetics of trauma.