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The History of English Dramatic Poetry to the Time of Shakespeare:: And ... - Page 121
by John Payne Collier - 1831 - 508 pages
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Elizabethan Marlowe: Writing and Culture in the English Renaissance

William Zunder - Drama - 1994 - 118 pages
...despite the momentary disruption of inner doubt in the last scene in the famous apostrophe to Zenocrate ('Ah, fair Zenocrate, divine Zenocrate! / Fair is too foul an epithet for thee . . .': V. 1. 135-91). And the play ends in triumph.7 From early in Elizabeth's reign, the metaphor...
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The English Stage: A History of Drama and Performance

J. L. Styan - Drama - 1996 - 452 pages
...with blood, he suddenly changes his tune in soliloquy and speaks an almost lyrical ode to his Queen: Ah fair Zenocrate, divine Zenocrate! Fair is too foul an epithet for thee. The mind is intended to boggle at the shocking juxtaposition and the outrageous discord that discloses...
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Doctor Faustus and Other Plays

Christopher Marlowe - English drama - 1998 - 550 pages
...Put the rest to the sword. Exeunt [all except Tamburlaine] Ah, fair Zenocrate, divine Zenocrate! 135 Fair is too foul an epithet for thee That, in thy...And fear to see thy kingly father's harm, With hair dishevelled wip'st thy watery cheeks, And like to Flora in her morning's pride,0 140 Shaking her silver...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...minds. 7017 Tamburlaine the Great Virtue is the fount whence honour springs. 7018 Tamburlaine the Great P6 7019 Tamburlaine the Great Now walk the angels on the walls of heaven, As sentinels to warn th'immortal...
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The Plays of Christopher Marlowe and George Peele: Rhetoric and Renaissance ...

Brian B. Ritchie - Drama - 1999 - 362 pages
...devotes two lines only to the reasons for her distress, and these are phrases within a relative clause: That in thy passion for thy country's love / And fear to see thy kingly father's harm.' He then further expands this relative clause, the subject of which is the 'That' of the third line...
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The Plays of Christopher Marlowe and George Peele: Rhetoric and Renaissance ...

Brian B. Ritchie - Drama - 1999 - 362 pages
...devotes two lines only to the reasons for her distress, and these are phrases within a relative clause: That in thy passion for thy country's love / And fear to see thy kingly father's harm.' He then further expands this relative clause, the subject of which is the 'That' of the third line...
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The Plays of Christopher Marlowe and George Peele: Rhetoric and Renaissance ...

Brian B. Ritchie - Drama - 1999 - 362 pages
...beauty whieh is so vital a part of Tamburlaine's ethieal vision: Ah fair Zenoerate, divine Zenoerate, Fair is too foul an epithet for thee, That in thy passion for thy eountry's love And fear to see thy kingly father's harm With hair dishevelled wip'st thy watery eheeks;...
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The Plays

Christopher Marlowe - Drama - 2000 - 564 pages
...drugs or mithridate: 70 But go, my lords, put the rest to the sword. [exeunt all except Tamburlaine Ah, fair Zenocrate! Divine Zenocrate! Fair is too...wip'st thy watery cheeks; And, like to Flora in her morning's pride, Shaking her silver tresses in the air, Rain'st on the earth resolved pearl in showers,...
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Shakespeare Survey, Volume 47

Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 302 pages
...are not; but/ai'r,/f ar, zndfoul are linked in a work that Shakespeare knew intimately, Tamberlaine: 'Ah fair Zenocrate, divine Zenocrate, / Fair is too...country's love, / And fear to see thy kingly father's harm . . .' etc. (Part 1, 5.1.135-8). 28 Each of the three major characters has an entrance that ironically...
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Tamburlaine

Christopher Marlowe - Drama - 2002 - 142 pages
...the rest to the sword. Ah, fair Zenocrate! —Divine Zenocrate! — [Exeunt all except TAMBURLAINE. Fair is too foul an epithet for thee. That in thy passion s for thy country's love, And fear to see thy kingly father's harm, And, like to Flora in her morning...
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