Revels Plays Tamburlaine the Great: Christopher Marlowe, (Paperback)

from baswood

The language of hyperbole the relentless cruelty of the central character and a play that features one martial exploit after another as the protagonists march across the stage makes the reading of it an exhausting experience. It was however a great hit on the Elizabethan stage, it was the play th...

from HadriantheBlind

Tamburlaine the conqueror. Not much in terms of genuine character development, but with beautiful passages and historical allusions. Violence for its own sake. Probably a piece for a famous actor to take the title role.

from jonfaith

Like his desire, lift upwards and divine Tamburlaine is epic and merciless. Kit gave us an orientalist paen, but one woven with gilded verse, an elevating counterpoint to the interminable bloodshed. Marlowe's canvas is vast, as the dying Tamburlaine commands: Give me a map. The extant world syste...

from jonfaith

Like his desire, lift upwards and divine Tamburlaine is epic and merciless. Kit gave us an orientalist paen, but one woven with gilded verse, an elevating counterpoint to the interminable bloodshed. Marlowe's canvas is vast, as the dying Tamburlaine commands: Give me a map. The extant world syste...

from jonfaith

Like his desire, lift upwards and divine Tamburlaine is epic and merciless. Kit gave us an orientalist paen, but one woven with gilded verse, an elevating counterpoint to the interminable bloodshed. Marlowe's canvas is vast, as the dying Tamburlaine commands: Give me a map. The extant world syste...