Monday, February 9, 2009

Marlowe's use of language

Tamburlaine so far reinforces Marlowe's wonderful command of the English language. Even though he wrote in the Early Modern period and the use of language in that period is different, often times radically so, than our current style, his clever word choice and subtle character development through spoken words leaves me chuckling to myself or otherwise impressed with Marlowe's writing. I like how Marlowe develops Tamburlaine as an opposite to Mycetes and Cosroe, and the witty (on Marlowe's behalf) banter between the brothers, who are both very full of themselves and, for the most part, completely stupid. Tamburlaine's posturing by laying out his gold and how he so swiftly talks his opponents into supporting him are all beautiful examples of both Marlowe's command of the language in form and in content.

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