Marlowe - Tamburlaine the Great Part ONe Flashcards
When was Tamburlaine published?
1587
What does the Printer (Richard Jones) say he has left out in his Dedication?
He leaves out some ‘fond and frivolious gestures’ as ‘a disgrace to so honourable…a history’
What does the Printer (RIcahrd Jones) beg in his dedication?
‘protection
Who is Cosroe and what does he attempt to do?
Broher of Mycetes, the king at the time, who attempts to overthrow Mycetes before Tamburlaine - demonstrating instability of Kingship
What is Mycete’s response to his brother Cosroe’s attmept to overthrow him?
“where is duty and allegiance”
What does Mycetes attempt to hide?
Mycetes attempts to “hide” his crown from Tamburlaine in a “simple hole”
What is Tamburlaine’s response to Mycetes’ effort to hide his crown?
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?
What does Thermidamas says of kingship and gods?
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…’
What does Tamburlaine call the ‘earthly crown’?
‘The ripest fruit….the sweet fruition of an earthly crown”
What does Tamburlaine insist his followers do?
Proclaim his reign aloud - to make the crown “surer on my head than if the Gods had helf a Parliament and pronounced me king”
How does Tamburlaine present the leaadership to Zenocrate?
“take my crown, vaunt of my worth
And manage words with it,as we will arms”
What does Tamburlaine say of his follower’s “births”?
‘your births shall be no blemish to your fame
For virtue is the fount where honour springs
And they are wrothy she investeth kings’
What does Tamburlaine say of the ‘god of war’
The god of war resigns his room to me
What does Tamburlaine insist of his deeds?
I am a lord, for so my deed shall prove
And yet a shepherd by my birth
What does Tamburlaine say was promised at his brith and by whom?
‘The Persian crown…gracious starts promised atmy birth”
Who has “sworn” to “royalise the deeds of Tamburlaine”
“fates and oracles of heaven have sworn
To royalise the deeds of Tamburlaine’
What does Tamburlaine say nature teaches?
‘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”
What is Tamburlaines V.i soliloquy exclusively about?
Zenocrate - suggesting he only views and forms his own self through others intersubjectively
Which three suicides occur? WHat is the judgement of the first?
Aquidas’ - causes “more honour and less pain”
also Bajazetyh and Zabina
How does Tamburlaine suggest his fame will spread?
“to spread my fame through hell and up to heaven”
What does Tamburlaine say to his followers?
“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
How does Ceneus praise Tamburlaine?
He durst, in distaine of wrong and tyranny
Defend his freedon against a monarchy
What does Cosroe say Tamburlaine has?
A giantly presumption
TO cast up hills against the face of heaven
What does Meander say Tamburlaine was not?
‘he was never sprung of human race
Since….he dares resolve of rule’
What does Bajazeth say of Tamburlaine’s sword?
‘Such a star hath influence in his sowrd
AS rules the skies and countermands the gods’
What is Zenocrate’s dilemma?
Torn between her ‘eyes’ (Tamburlaine) and her ‘heart’ (her homeland and family)
What is the difference between Tamburlaine’s and Techelles’ view of the power of oration?
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
What does Tamburaline say f ‘that mood’?
‘Speak in that mood: For will and shall best fitteth Tamburlaine’
What does Tamburlaine say his words are?
“I speak it, and my words are oracles”
What does Tamburlaine say he will wirte himself?
“write myself great Lord of Africa”
What does Tamburlaine say of poesy?
“immortal flowers of poesy
Wherein, as in a mirror, we perceive
The highest reaches of human wit’ - cannot express Zenocrate’s beauty sufficiently
What does Beauty do, for Tamburaline
‘beuaty’s just applause/with whose instinct the soul of man is touched’ [of Zenocrate]
