ENGL 3020 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Tamburlaine, Blank Verse, Providentialism
23 Nov 2012
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Marlowe was a spy, atheist (crime to be), maybe wrote zenophobic (against protestant) posters. Had to report to privy council every day, keeping an eye on him. If he wrote the posters signed tamburlaine (name of his first play) he could have gone rogue or been working for the privy council. Killed in a bar stabbed in the eye poss a double cross or a hit gone wrong. Marlowe-actual events as its subject (no larger than life characters), first real elizabethan play, changed how plays were wrote, introduced blank verse (iambic pentameter, does not rhyme, 10 syllables per line). Hubris: humiliating someone because they are less than you. Everyone was supposed to be equal, tries to keep rich citizens in check. Providentialism: divine right of kings (rebel against king is to rebel against god), great chain of being (god, angels, man, woman, animals, birds, fish; god will intervene and kill guilty), god is imminent in history.
