British Writers: Retrospective supplement IJay Parini This supplement reflects the newest scholarship on some of the most important figures featured in the original British Writers set. Twenty brand new articles, all written by scholars, provide a fresh look at writers such as Chaucer, William Blake, Charles Dickens, James Joyce, W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, Joseph Conrad and many others. |
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... Tamburlaine endures through two plays . As many readers and audiences have noted , Tamburlaine is a monster of force and will , a demigod or robot who stalks across the stage wreaking havoc at every step , inexorable and without remorse ...
... Tamburlaine endures through two plays . As many readers and audiences have noted , Tamburlaine is a monster of force and will , a demigod or robot who stalks across the stage wreaking havoc at every step , inexorable and without remorse ...
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... Tamburlaine was quickly followed by a sequel , Tamburlaine the Great , Part II ( 1590 ) . The first play ends with its hero at the height of his fortunes , conquering much of the known world and appointing his friends as kings . The ...
... Tamburlaine was quickly followed by a sequel , Tamburlaine the Great , Part II ( 1590 ) . The first play ends with its hero at the height of his fortunes , conquering much of the known world and appointing his friends as kings . The ...
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... Tamburlaine's world but Marlowe's own . Tamburlaine anachronistically holds a Euro- pean world map , a mappa mundi , and proudly cat- alogues some of the most recent geographical dis- coveries in the sixteenth century . In these lines ...
... Tamburlaine's world but Marlowe's own . Tamburlaine anachronistically holds a Euro- pean world map , a mappa mundi , and proudly cat- alogues some of the most recent geographical dis- coveries in the sixteenth century . In these lines ...
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Contents | xi |
List of Contributors | lix |
SAMUEL BECKETT Lydia Rainford | 17 |
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