HIST-1107EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Blank Verse, Hylas, Tamburlaine

• School: Laurentian
• Department: History / Histoire
• Course: HIST-1107EL
• Professor: Pierre Cameron

Document Summary

Humor stems from mistaken identities, ridiculous disguises, domestic or marital conflicts. Subgenres: comedy of humors (e. g. ben jonson"s every man in his humor , 1598); city comedy (e. g. thomas dekker"s the shoemaker"s holiday , 1599); tragicomedy (e. g. thomas middleton"s the witch , 1612) historical drama. E. g. thomas preston, cambyses , king of persia (1569); shakespeare, richard. Iii (c. 1593); henry v (c. 1599: elizabethan drama: christopher marlowe (1564-93) Marlowe came from a humble background, but rose to become very famous. Key dramatic works include: edward ii , the tragical history of doctor faustus , Tamburlaine the great (two parts), and the jew of malta (which influenced. Excerpt from thomas preston, cambyses, king of persia (c. 1560: more labled, lines far too long, too many syllables, seven-stress line ( fouteener ) For cupid he, that eyeless boy, my heart hath so enflamed. With beauty, you me to content the like cannot be named;