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26th February 1564
Christopher Marlowe, poet and playwright was baptised at St George’s Canterbury.
He was the son of John Marlowe & his wife, Katherine Arthur.

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"Accurs'd be he that first invented war!"
(Mycetes, Act 2 Scene 4, Tamburlaine, Christopher Marlowe)

#EarlyModernMonday
📸Antony Sher as Tamburlaine, 1993, @RSC, photograph by Reg Wilson

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The Shakespeare Network posted the 2025 restored verson of BBC Radio 3 2012 audio adaptation of Tamburlaine with Con O'Neill voicing the main part 😍❤ #ConONeill #Tamburlaine

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX9A...

Jude Owusu as Tamburlaine and company in Michael Boyd's 2018 production of Tamburlaine

"From jigging veins of rhyming mother wits,
And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay,
We'll lead you to the stately tent of war,
Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine
Threatening the world with high astounding terms,
And scourging kingdoms with his conquering sword."
#Marlowe #Tamburlaine

"Come, let us march against the powers of heaven,
And set black streamers in the firmament,
To signify the slaughter of the gods."
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I mean to be a terror to the world
(Tamburlaine, Act 1 Scene 2)

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📸Prince Plockey as Tamburlaine taken by #AdamTrigg 2015

MYCETES:
Accurst be he that first invented war,
They knew not, ah, they knew not simple men,
How those were hit by pelting Cannon shot,
Stand staggering like a quivering Aspen leafe
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#LestWeForget