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Marlowe - Tamburlaine the Great Part ONe Flashcards

1
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When was Tamburlaine published?

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1587

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What does the Printer (Richard Jones) say he has left out in his Dedication?

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He leaves out some ‘fond and frivolious gestures’ as ‘a disgrace to so honourable…a history’

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What does the Printer (RIcahrd Jones) beg in his dedication?

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‘protection

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Who is Cosroe and what does he attempt to do?

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Broher of Mycetes, the king at the time, who attempts to overthrow Mycetes before Tamburlaine - demonstrating instability of Kingship

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What is Mycete’s response to his brother Cosroe’s attmept to overthrow him?

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“where is duty and allegiance”

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What does Mycetes attempt to hide?

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Mycetes attempts to “hide” his crown from Tamburlaine in a “simple hole”

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What is Tamburlaine’s response to Mycetes’ effort to hide his crown?

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He will not ‘steal’ it despite scene of comic trickery - returns the crown insisting he “will pull it from thy head”
importance of symbolic and deserving overthrowing?

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What does Thermidamas says of kingship and gods?

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A god is not so glorious as a king…..to wear a crown encased with pearl adn gold
Whose virtues varry with it life and death…’

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What does Tamburlaine call the ‘earthly crown’?

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‘The ripest fruit….the sweet fruition of an earthly crown”

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What does Tamburlaine insist his followers do?

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Proclaim his reign aloud - to make the crown “surer on my head than if the Gods had helf a Parliament and pronounced me king”

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How does Tamburlaine present the leaadership to Zenocrate?

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“take my crown, vaunt of my worth

And manage words with it,as we will arms”

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What does Tamburlaine say of his follower’s “births”?

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‘your births shall be no blemish to your fame
For virtue is the fount where honour springs
And they are wrothy she investeth kings’

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What does Tamburlaine say of the ‘god of war’

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The god of war resigns his room to me

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What does Tamburlaine insist of his deeds?

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I am a lord, for so my deed shall prove

And yet a shepherd by my birth

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What does Tamburlaine say was promised at his brith and by whom?

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‘The Persian crown…gracious starts promised atmy birth”

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Who has “sworn” to “royalise the deeds of Tamburlaine”

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“fates and oracles of heaven have sworn

To royalise the deeds of Tamburlaine’

17
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What does Tamburlaine say nature teaches?

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‘Nature, that framed us of four elements
Warring wtihin our breasts…..doth teach us all to have aspiring minds…climbing after knowledge infinite
Always moivng as the restless spheres”

18
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What is Tamburlaines V.i soliloquy exclusively about?

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Zenocrate - suggesting he only views and forms his own self through others intersubjectively

19
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Which three suicides occur? WHat is the judgement of the first?

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Aquidas’ - causes “more honour and less pain”

also Bajazetyh and Zabina

20
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How does Tamburlaine suggest his fame will spread?

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“to spread my fame through hell and up to heaven”

21
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What does Tamburlaine say to his followers?

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“think you I weigh this treasure more than you?”

“thy person is of more worth/ Than the possession of the Persian crown” values people more than items - due to their ability to create,, intersubjectively, his status

22
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How does Ceneus praise Tamburlaine?

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He durst, in distaine of wrong and tyranny

Defend his freedon against a monarchy

23
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What does Cosroe say Tamburlaine has?

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A giantly presumption

TO cast up hills against the face of heaven

24
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What does Meander say Tamburlaine was not?

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‘he was never sprung of human race

Since….he dares resolve of rule’

25
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What does Bajazeth say of Tamburlaine’s sword?

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‘Such a star hath influence in his sowrd

AS rules the skies and countermands the gods’

26
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What is Zenocrate’s dilemma?

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Torn between her ‘eyes’ (Tamburlaine) and her ‘heart’ (her homeland and family)

27
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What is the difference between Tamburlaine’s and Techelles’ view of the power of oration?

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Techelles: cowards…look for orations…our swords shall play the orators for us’
Tamburlaine: ‘stay, Techelles, ask a parle first’- and obtains the crown through oratory skill

28
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What does Tamburaline say f ‘that mood’?

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‘Speak in that mood: For will and shall best fitteth Tamburlaine’

29
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What does Tamburlaine say his words are?

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“I speak it, and my words are oracles”

30
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What does Tamburlaine say he will wirte himself?

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“write myself great Lord of Africa”

31
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What does Tamburlaine say of poesy?

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“immortal flowers of poesy
Wherein, as in a mirror, we perceive
The highest reaches of human wit’ - cannot express Zenocrate’s beauty sufficiently

32
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What does Beauty do, for Tamburaline

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‘beuaty’s just applause/with whose instinct the soul of man is touched’ [of Zenocrate]

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