Analysis Of Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine

The most obvious reason for the success of Tamburlaine was the surprise and delight with which Marlowe’s style was received, a style which has often been analysed, praised, and criticised in the same time. The blank-verse line with its variations in pace and rhythm, the beauty of the language filled with sonorous place-names and words expressing colour, light, and space, the long sentences, abounding in hyperbole and imagery from classical mythology were the source from which the rich variety of Elizabethan dramatic blank verse was to flow. In “Introduction” to Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine, it is stated that the characteristic speech in Tamburlaine is the exhortation (a special type of deliberative oration), and the plot is arranged …show more content…
The concept of monologue may be ambiguous. The only thing that the various standard definitions of monologue actually have in common is the fact that they define it as the opposite of dialogue and that they, therefore, assign every dramatic utterance to one or other of these two formal categories. The definition of monologue depends therefore on how the contrast between monologue and dialogue is understood. According to Pfister, there are several criteria to take into consideration when debating this problem. First, there is the situational criterion, which refers to the speaker’s solitude. It means that there are no actual addressees on stage and that the character is left to talk to himself. Then, there is the structural criterion which refers to the length and degree of autonomy of a particular speech. According to the first criterion, a longer report or a long speech are not monologues since they are addressed directly to other characters on stage. However, according to the second criterion, they are monologues, since they are self-contained, autonomous speeches of a reasonable length. Another terminology distinguishes between these two concepts and describes the first type as a soliloquy and the second as a