Reckoning and Regeneration: Billy Bob Thornton's Scourge of God and Holy Fool
1999; Brill; Volume: 3; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1163/156852999x00132
ISSN1568-5292
Autores Tópico(s)Literature: history, themes, analysis
ResumoRECKONING AND REGENERATION: BILLY BOB THORNTON'S SCOURGE OF GOD AND HOLY FOOL SEAN BENSON Saint Louis University ??From jigging veins of rhyming mother-wits," the doggerel verse and pabulum that his predecessors in the drama had, in his view, offered audiences, Christopher Marlowe promised more substantial fare, nothing less than "the Scythian Tamburlaine / Threatening the world with high astounding terms, / And scourging kingdoms with his conquering sword" (Prol. 1, 4-6, emphasis mine). In the two parts of Tamburlaine the Great (1587 and 1588), Marlowe made good his claim: the verse was bold and innovative - Marlowe's "mighty line" -
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