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About the Author
Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe (baptised 26 February 1564 – 30 May 1593), was an English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe was the foremost Elizabethan tragedian of his day. He greatly influenced William Shakespeare, who was born in the same year as Marlowe and who rose to become the pre-eminent Elizabethan playwright after Marlowe's mysterious early death. Marlowe's plays are known for the use of blank verse and their overreaching protagonists.
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First play by Christopher Marlowe, produced about 1587 and published in 1590. The play was written in two parts, each of which has five acts, and was based on the earlier Silva de varia leccion (1540; The Foreste; or, Collection of Histories) by the early 16th-century Spanish scholar and humanist Pedro Mexia. Marlowe's "mighty line," as Ben Jonson called it, established blank verse as the standard for later Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatic writing. The play recounts the brutal rise to power and the mysterious end of the bloody 14th-century Mongol conqueror Timur, or Tamburlaine. Marlowe's gifts are displayed not only in his supple poetry but also in his ability to view his tragic hero from several angles, revealing both the brutality and the grandeur of the character. -- The Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature
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- PublisherScolar Press
- Publication date1973
- ISBN 10 0859670279
- ISBN 13 9780859670272
- BindingPaperback
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