Tamburlaine
Americannoun
noun
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And the bloody melodrama of history is indulged with the malevolent glee that made Marlowe’s “Tamburlaine the Great” Elizabethan box office gold.
From Los Angeles Times
In his 40-year career as a set builder, Paul, 62, has fashioned all sorts of things, from Tamburlaine’s chariot to Victorian pushcarts.
From Washington Post
I went with my boyfriend to Tamburlaine and saw Steven with his entourage and he said, “Ditch the boyfriend. Come sit with us.”
From New York Times
I did a number of dramatic productions — “Cyrano de Bergerac,” “Fiddler on the Roof,” “Tamburlaine the Great” — so I had to learn how to act.
From New York Times
In a delicious literary easter-egg, the inaugural Page 3 girl claims to be using the proceeds of her work to fund her study of Marlowe’s Tamburlaine at drama school.
From Economist
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