Number and Narrative in Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great

IF 0.2 3区文学 Q2 Arts and Humanities

STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900 Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI:10.1353/sel.2020.0010

Lisa A. Wilde

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Abstract

Abstract:Despite the extensive critical literature on the practical spatial arts in Christopher Marlowe's Tamburlaine, little attention has been paid to rhetorical function of number itself in the play's frequent scenes of accounting. This article reads Tamburlaine's steadily advancing figures against contemporary arithmetical narratives of exponential growth, newly popularized in Elizabethan manuals of Arabic computation and operating with particular force in the commercial discourse surrounding New World exploration. Attending to the romance of number in Tamburlaine, I argue, both helps make sense of contemporary responses to the play and suggests ways in which drama participates in shaping the scientific imaginary of its age.

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马洛《帖木儿大帝》中的数字与叙事

摘要:尽管对克里斯托弗·马洛的《Tamburlaine》中的实用空间艺术有大量的批评文献，但在剧中频繁出现的会计场景中，数字本身的修辞功能却很少受到关注。本文将阅读坦伯兰稳步推进的数字，以对抗当代指数增长的算术叙事，这种叙事最近在伊丽莎白时代的阿拉伯计算手册中得到普及，并在围绕新世界探索的商业话语中发挥着特殊的作用。我认为，关注《坦伯兰》中数字的浪漫，既有助于理解当代对这部戏剧的反应，也暗示了戏剧参与塑造其时代科学想象的方式。

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STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900 LITERATURE, BRITISH ISLES-

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期刊介绍： SEL focuses on four fields of British literature in rotating, quarterly issues: English Renaissance, Tudor and Stuart Drama, Restoration and Eighteenth Century, and Nineteenth Century. The editors select learned, readable papers that contribute significantly to the understanding of British literature from 1500 to 1900. SEL is well known for thecommissioned omnibus review of recent studies in the field that is included in each issue. In a single volume, readers might find an argument for attributing a previously unknown work to Shakespeare or de-attributing a famous work from Milton, a study ofthe connections between class and genre in the Restoration Theater.