 | Christopher J. Cobb - 2007 - Страниц: 312
...disclaim all my paternal care. (1.1.109-13) Lear's oath resounds in the same register as Tamburlaine's: "Sooner shall the sun fall from his sphere / Than Tamburlaine be slain or overcome" (1.2.175-76). Lear's rash resolve, "Nothing. I have sworn, I am firm" (245), emulates Tamburlaine's... | |
 | Kirk Melnikoff, Edward Gieskes - 2008 - Страниц: 268
...To make her turn her wheel as I think best"5 is a clear echo of Tamburlaine's vaunt to Theridimas: "I hold the Fates bound fast in iron chains, / And with my hand turn Fortune's wheel about."6 Similarly, the slaughter of the kneeling, pleading virgins of Damascus by a black-clad Tamburlaine... | |
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Forsake thy king, and do but join with me, And we will triumph over all the world : I hold the Fates bound fast in iron chains, And with my hand turn Fortune's wheel about; And sooner shall the sun fall from his sphere Than Tamburlaine be slain or overcome. 
