Tamburlaine the Great: Parts I and II (Regents Renaissance Drama Ser) - Softcover

Marlowe, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803252714 ISBN 13: 9780803252714

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 1967

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

John Davies Jump was professor of English at the University of Manchester.

Review:

"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 (The New York Review of Books)

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Publication date: 1967
• ISBN 10: 0803252714
• ISBN 13: 9780803252714
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 205
• Editor: Jump John D.