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Tamburlaine the Great: Parts I and II
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Publication Date: September 1st, 1967
Publisher:
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN:
9780803252714
Pages:
205
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Description
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.
Praise for Tamburlaine the Great: Parts I and II
"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
