{"id":49,"date":"2004-09-13T20:11:19","date_gmt":"2004-09-13T20:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=49"},"modified":"2004-09-13T20:11:19","modified_gmt":"2004-09-13T20:11:19","slug":"tamburlaine-must-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"Tamburlaine Must Die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of my relaxed cultural weekend, in addition to art and theatre (the &#8220;Bollywood&#8221; production of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theambassadors.com\/albery\/sp_p1281.html\"><em>Twelfth Night<\/em><\/a>, an excellent idea not as well executed or developed as it might have been but still well worth seeing), I read Louise Welsh&#8217;s <em>Tamburlaine Must Die<\/em>, an imagining of Christopher Marlowe&#8217;s explanation of his own fate at Deptford.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s had mixed reviews, see a selection <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reviewsofbooks.com\/tamburlaine_must_die\/\"> here<\/a>. The language doesn&#8217;t always seem appropriate, but the pace is brilliant and the mentality of late Elizabethan London seems to me just right: the amorality, the fatalism, and the fervent but unreliable passions. You might ask where I&#8217;m getting that sense from and I guess to a large extent Shakespeare: a nice little piece of consilience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of my relaxed cultural weekend, in addition to art and theatre (the &#8220;Bollywood&#8221; production of Twelfth Night, an excellent idea not as well executed or developed as it might have been but still well worth seeing), I read Louise Welsh&#8217;s Tamburlaine Must Die, an imagining of Christopher Marlowe&#8217;s explanation of his own fate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","author-natalie-bennett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}