Word: bajazeth
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Thus says the socially insecure world conqueror Tamburlaine, in Christopher Marlowe's play of the same name, to Bajazeth, Emperor of the Turks. Tamburlaine puts the defeated Emperor in a cage and has him wheeled around to subsequent battle sites. Quite a comedown for the Emperor. And quite an ego boost for Tamburlaine, the former shepherd...
...quiet conversation that precedes it. In fact Basil Ashmore, who cut the two full-length parts of Tamburlaine into a two-and-a-half-hour show, retained most of the play's quieter moments while cutting back on the noise. The changes he has worked are radical; Bajazeth and Zabina disappear from part one, the Christian kings and their Muslim allies form part two. Almost all the battle scenes are excised, and so, unfortunately, are some important parts of Zenocrate's role. It is inevitable that much is lost in the cutting, but Ashmore might have used his blue pencil...
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