 | Alan John Fletcher - 2000 - 548 Seiten
...the occasion of their official visits, as the next chapter will reveal. Provincial Pomps and Triumphs 'Is it not passing brave to be a King, / And ride in triumph through Persepolis?' Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlainc /, Act II, sc. v Very few English kings, and no queens, were ever... | |
 | Elaine Sciolino - 2000 - 414 Seiten
...men say? Night is with child! What will she bring to birth? HAFIZ, FOURTEENTH-CENTURY PERSIAN POET Is it not passing brave to be a King, And ride in triumph through Persepolis? TAMBURLAINE, CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE ./Vf ,MIR MAHALLATI has an air of elegance about him. He always stands... | |
 | John Huntington - 2001 - 218 Seiten
...discussion in Tamburlaine, part I, on whether or not to become kings, beginning with the famous lines, "Is it not passing brave to be a King / And ride in triumph through PersepolisT (758-59). Theridimas, when asked if he wants to be a king, can say "though I praise it,... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe - 2002 - 142 Seiten
...USUMCASANE. TAMB. "And ride in triumph through Persepolis!" Is it not brave to be a king, Techelles? Usumcasane and Theridamas, Is it not passing brave...be a god. THER. A god is not so glorious as a king. I think the pleasure they enjoy in Heaven, Cannot compare with kingly joys in earth.— To wear a crown... | |
 | Kenneth Muir - 2002 - 208 Seiten
...results are fatal: And ride in triumph through Persepolis! Is it not brave to be a king, Techelles ! Usumcasane and Theridamas, Is it not passing brave...be a king, And ride in triumph through Persepolis? (n, v, 50-4) Words, the emotional force of a chance phrase, generate a real and consequential political... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - 1958 - 336 Seiten
...in Tamburlaine: 'And ride in triumph through Persepolis'! Is it not brave to be a king, Techelles? Usumcasane and Theridamas, Is it not passing brave...be a king 'And ride in triumph through Persepolis'? (l Tamburlaine^ ii. v. 50) 1 Except where explicitly stated I follow the spelling of the Oxford Shakespeare,... | |
 | Graham Holderness - 2002 - 220 Seiten
...for the war; Pistol quotes, in another interesting interpolation, lines from Marlowe's Tamburlainc. Is it not passing brave to be a king And ride in triumph through Persepolis? The theatrical metaphors are very obvious here, and very much in the spirit of Shakespeare's play.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2002 - 268 Seiten
...Olivier has Pistol declaim lines from Tamburlaine Part 1, 2.3: 'Farewell, farewell, divine Zenocrate/ Is it not passing brave to be a King/ And ride in triumph through Persepolis?'. 50 Branagh's film leaves Quickly alone at the end of the scene 'in her own quiet despair' (Branagh,... | |
 | Graham Holderness - 2002 - 220 Seiten
...for the war; Pistol quotes, in another interesting interpolation, lines from Marlowe's Tamburlaine: Is it not passing brave to be a king And ride in triumph through Persepolis? The theatrical metaphors are very obvious here, and very much in the spirit of Shakespeare's play.... | |
 | Carol Falvo Heffernan - 2003 - 182 Seiten
...Baghdad, and Babylon: " 'And ride in triumph through PersepolisT Is it not brave to be a king, Techellesl Usumcasane and Theridamas, Is it not passing brave to be a king, 'And ride in triumph through PersepolisT ' (1 Tamburlaine, 2. 5. 50-54) His chief source was a chapter in Fortescue's Foreste (1571),... | |
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And ride in triumph through Persepolis!" Is it not brave to be a king, Techelles? Usumcasane and Theridamas, Is it not passing brave to be a king, "And ride in triumph through Persepolis? 
