LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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Shakespeare
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Marlowe
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Ben Johnson
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John Webster
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Detailed explanation-1: -Tamburlaine the Great is the only play by Christopher Marlowe to be published during his lifetime. Written in two parts around 1587-88, it was first entered into the Stationers’ Register (the record book for the publishing industry) in August 1590.
Detailed explanation-2: -Tamburlaine the Great is the only play by Christopher Marlowe to be published during his lifetime. Written in two parts around 1587-88, it was first entered into the Stationers’ Register (the record book for the publishing industry) in August 1590.
Detailed explanation-3: -Christopher Marlowe’s most famous play is The Tragicall History of D. Faustus. His other plays are Tamburlaine the Great; Dido, Queen of Carthage; Edward II; The Massacre at Paris; and The Jew of Malta.
Detailed explanation-4: -A Scythian Shepherd The Persian Emperor, Mycetes, wants to send his army to destroy the Scythian shepherd and bandit, Tamburlaine. The Emperor’s brother, Cosroe, agrees to help, but secretly plots the overthrow of Mycetes to take the throne for himself.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, by Marlowe. (c. 1587–1588); a popular lyric of the time.