The little white attic

1/ Now this sounds more like Marlowe, though it’s an early play.  There are some interesting phrases: “map of weather-beaten woe”, “drenched...

 1/ The Greeks, once known, are seen everywhere. References to the ancient Greeks are scattered all over Marlowe’s play.   “QUEEN O miserabl...

1/ The quote in the headline comes from Book 1, about Thesis, mother of Akhilleus (better known as Achilles).  I like the comparisons and im...

There was a time when pretty much all I read was novels and short stories; the plays I knew were those assigned at school or university. The...

I read the verse translation by Philip Wayne.  1/ The first interesting thing to observe is that in Goethe’s play, Faust doesn’t appear firs...

Born 15 years after Cervantes and 2 years before Shakespeare, Lope de Vega died 19 years after the two of them and claimed to have written s...

1/ First, let’s get the who’s who questions out of the way.  Saturninus is son to the late Emperor of Rome, afterwards Emperor.  Bassianus i...

1/ Could anyone read The Jew of Malta now without comparing it to The Merchant of Venice ? I doubt it. The difference is quite clear from t...

Before talking about the play, I must mention some characters:  - Tamburlaine and Zenocrate have 3 sons: Calyphas, Amyras, Celebinus. Caly...