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Shakespeare's Predecessors, Lyly, Kyd, Nash, Peele, Greene, Marlowe; the types of drama with which they experimented, the Marlowesque, one-man type, or tragedy of passion, the popular Chronicle plays, the Domestic drama, the Court or Lylian comedy, Romantic comedy and tragedy, Classical plays, and the Melodrama. Marlowe is the greatest of Shakespeare's predecessors.
MARLOWE'S WORKS. In addition to the poem "Hero and Leander," to which we have referred, Marlowe is famous for four dramas, now known as the Marlowesque or one-man type of tragedy, each revolving about one central personality who is consumed by the lust of power. The first of these is Tamburlaine, the story of Timur the Tartar.
Ancient Pistol is fed and stuffed with relic and rags of Marlowesque affectation "Holla! ye pampered jades of Asia, Can ye not draw but twenty miles a day." is a quotation taken straight from Tamburlaine. A study of Shakespeare, who refuses to be crushed within the limits of a general essay is no part of the plan of this book.
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