ENGL2060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Blank Verse, Social Mobility, Tamburlaine
Week 2 Lecture – ENGL2060 – Tamburlaine
Rhetoric, Drama and the Body of State
• Tamburlaine
• Richard III
Gender and Sexuality:
• As you like It
• Epicoene
Racial and Religious Identities:
• Jew of Malta
• Merchant of Venice
• Othello
Nation and Empire:
• King Lear
• The Tempest
• Cymbeline
Prologue:
• Blank verse – unrhymed iambic pentameter (5 sets of iambs – a foot of 2 syllables,
eig stessed o ustessed, eg eeath
• Alliteration – oeits as loage keeps
• “ouig kigdos – body of states
• “ythia – an outsider, a barbarian
• Theate old ith astoudig tes ad ats ith his oueig sod –
words and actions married together
• Tagi glass – goes not end as a tragedy
• Comes and see Tamburlaine triumph over all his emeries
• Does not have to be about a noble person, not born into the royal class or nobility
• Goes against Aristotle idea of being about men and royalty
Christopher Marlow – 1564-1593:
• Father shoemaker – from the small urban craftsman working class
• Alike to Tamburlaine – not to a remotely wellborn background – has to work
• BA and MA
• Mattered most was grammar school – most important for the day of
understanding renaissance drama
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Document Summary
Rhetoric, drama and the body of state: tamburlaine, richard iii. Gender and sexuality: as you like it, epicoene. Jew of malta: merchant of venice, othello. Nation and empire: king lear, the tempest, cymbeline. 1. 1, lines 1-5: mycetes character waiting to happen knows how stupid he is but tying all the same k(cid:374)o(cid:449)s li(cid:373)itatio(cid:374)s (cid:862)i(cid:374)suffi(cid:272)ie(cid:374)t(cid:863, embodies the power of the state through hereditary. Lines 6-17: cosroe sets scene not in england, the plants influence character. In past has mighty conquers (great in the good old days, pottered history: cynthia (moon) and saturn both cold and feminised, sun and mercury both manly and denied sharing their influence, need an intelligent and eloquent ruler. 1. 2, lines 128-32: techelles is a man of action swords are words, tamburlaine willing to use orations words are swords/weapons. Battle of thermopylae: tamburlaine uses julius caesar was a charismatic leader, positive reference (cid:272)o(cid:373)pa(cid:396)ed to bajazeth(cid:859)s (cid:374)egati(cid:448)e a(cid:271)out (cid:374)ot (cid:272)a(cid:396)i(cid:374)g a(cid:271)out losi(cid:374)g (cid:373)e(cid:374, different rhetorical approach.
