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Tamburlaine Drama Analysis

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A study about drama should perhaps start with the definition of the drama. In one sense, such a study could only end with such a definition: only by careful examination of various plays drama can really be understood. Over time, there have been many scholars claiming that there is no explicit evidence for connecting Tamburlaine with Marlowe, yet no one has seriously doubted his authorship, because each verse is so strongly marked by his personality. Tamburlaine is the work in which Marlowe’s habits of speech and thought are expressed most densely and most emphatically. Having aspirations for infinity, yet faced with the limitations of the stage, Marlowe decided to use his mighty words as weapons. Conflict is verbal rather than physical aggression. In Tamburlaine dialogue does not flow. Characters speak in formal long monologues. The text consists mainly of set pieces of purple passages. Marlowe creates his own sound effects, manipulating a language which is not simply a means of communication but a substitute for representation. Therefore, the hero is a consummate rhetorician and speechlessness is the representation of weakness. The cowardly Mycetes, for he is a king, has the prerogative of opening the play, but since this requires a “great and thundering speech” he confesses that he is unable to express the same. Therefore, preparing for the following movement, he lets his more articulate brother speak. Tamburlaine, after capturing and courting Zenocrate, has decided

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