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3 septembre 2018
- handle: 10670/1.qo5by3
- isbn: 9782878542950
- eisbn: 9782878548594
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Renaissance plaisir diable féminin enfers Literature, British Isles Medieval & Renaissance Studies LIT019000 DSBDSujets proches
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Camille Dumoulié, « Délices de la fureur tyrannique dans Tamerlan de Marlowe », Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, ID : 10670/1.qo5by3
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How can we explain the success of Marlowe’s Tamburlaine? Indeed everything in the dramaturgy and the less than moral intentions of this tragedy seems to go against the laws of the genre. The ultimate scandal is that Marlowe transforms the image of the “barbarous and bloody Tamburlaine” into that of a delicious tyrant. His power to seduce us seems sheer make believe — that of the sophist, of the tyrant, of the poet. But the most powerful seduction and the real tyranny is that of Marlowe’s poetry. Tamburlaine seems to embody that poetic and political event, that “Coup de dés” (throw of the dice) which justifies a powerful life as an aesthetic event and which, as a result, must be equated with the subversion of any form of power.