Titlebook: Marlowe: The Plays; Stevie Simkin Textbook 2001Latest edition The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2001 comedy.dance.drama.edit

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Power and Politicsas, Tamburlaine, Edward and Mortimer (in .) are driven by a desire for control. In Faustus’s case, it is a desire to determine his own destiny; for the others, the struggle is a more directly political one. Issues of state politics are crucial to all Marlowe’s plays, with the exceptions of . and the

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Endings and Exitsanti-climax. Tamburlaine dies not in battle, but in old age. His dynasty, meanwhile, will continue, and the conclusion is as much about the coronation of his successor as it is about his own death. Marlowe deals with an undramatic set of circumstances by lavishing some grand poetry on this final sce

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Marlowe the Elizabethan a phenomenally successful playwright, eclipsing Shakespeare during his lifetime. As he was enjoying huge success with . and ., Shakespeare was working on his first set of history plays, the . cycle, and some early comedies like . and .. Marlowe’s works, in an approximation of chronological order, c

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Openings and Entrancesach of Marlowe’s plays, as most subsequent chapters will, in this opening section we are going to consider . extracts from each play, the prologue and the first scene. We will compare the different ways in which the plays begin, and how the prologues function in each case. We will also make some comparisons between the plays.

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