Tamburlaine the Great: Part One and Part Two

ISBN-13: 9781554811748 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 300 str.

Christopher Marlowe

Opis

Tamburlaine the Great, Parts One and Two are the first plays that Christopher Marlowe wrote for London's then new freestanding, open-air public playhouses. They trace the progress of Tamburlaine, a Central Asian leader, as he "scourge[s] kingdoms with his conquering sword

Spis treści

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Christopher Marlowe: A Brief Chronology
• A Note on the Text
• Tamburlaine the Great, Parts One and Two
• Appendix A: Lives of Tamburlaine
• 1. From George Whetstone, The English Mirror (1586)
• 2. From John Foxe, Acts and Monuments (1610)
• 3. From Richard Knolles, The General History of the Turks (1603)
• 4. Jean Dubec-Crespin, The History of the Great Emperor Tamerlan (1597)
• Appendix B: Early Modern English Representations of Islam
• 1. From George Whetstone, The English Mirror (1586)
• 2. From Anonymous, Sir Bevis of Hampton (1585)
• 3. From Giles Fletcher, The Policy of the Turkish Empire (1597)
• Appendix C: Literary Intertexts
• 1. From Robert Greene, Perimedes the Blacksmith (1588)
• 2. Christopher Marlowe, ""The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,"" in England's Helicon (1600)
• 3. From Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum (1597)
• 4. From Ben Jonson, Timber; or, Discoveries, in The Works of Benjamin Jonson (1641)
• 5. From Anonymous, The Troublesome Reign of John King of England (1591)
• 6. From Thomas Dekker, Old Fortunatus (1600)
• 7. From Thomas Middleton, The Triumphs of Integrity (1623)
• 8. From Thomas Nashe, Christ's Tears over Jerusalem (1613)
• 9. From Thomas Dekker, The Wonderful Year (1603)
• Appendix D: Marlowe's Reputation
• 1. From Robert Greene, A Groatsworth of Wit (1592)
• 2. Thomas Kyd's Two Letters concerning His Arrest and Interrogation Regarding the Dutch Church Libel and Marlowe's Atheism
• 3. Richard Baines, "A Note Containing the Opinion of Christopher Marlowe concerning His Damnable Judgment of Religion and Scorn of God's Word"
• 4. From Thomas Beard, The Theatre of God's Judgements (1597)
• Select Bibliography