18 Best classics books like Tamburlaine the Great by Christopher Marlowe

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Tamburlaine the Great

By: Christopher Marlowe

3.33

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

"Time passeth swift away; Our life is frail, and we may die to-day."

-Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great

"Time passeth swift away; Our life is frail, and we may die to-day."

-Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great

"Yet should there hover in their restless heads One thought, one grace, one wonder at the least, Which into words no virtue can digest."

-Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great

"Yet should there hover in their restless heads One thought, one grace, one wonder at the least, Which into words no virtue can digest."

-Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great

If you liked the classics plot in Tamburlaine the Great by Christopher Marlowe , here is a list of 18 books like this:

Cover of The Roaring Girl by Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton, Elizabeth Cook

1. The Roaring Girl

By: Thomas Dekker , Thomas Middleton , Elizabeth Cook

3.41

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

New Mermaids are modern spelling, fully-annotated editions of important Engish plays. Each volume i… read more

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  • classics
  • school
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  • fiction
  • plays
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Cover of Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine, Cynthia Marshall

2. Antony and Cleopatra

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Cynthia Marshall

3.71

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A romantic tragedy about the relationship between Mark Antony and the Queen of Egypt, including not… read more

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  • classics
  • school
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  • drama
"Melt Egypt into Nile!"

-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

"Make death proud to take us."

-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

"...make death proud to take us."

-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

"Thou are the armourer of my heart—"

-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

Cover of Arden of Faversham by Anonymous, Unknown, Martin White, Tom Lockwood

3. Arden of Faversham

By: Anonymous , Unknown , Martin White , Tom Lockwood

3.47

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

This 'lamentable and true tragedy', as it is announced on its title page, dramatises a domestic mur… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • read for school
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4. Tamburlaine the Great

By: Christopher Marlowe

3.33

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

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  • classics
  • tragedy
  • school
  • british literature
  • read for school
  • grad school
  • fiction
  • 16th century
  • plays
  • drama
"Time passeth swift away; Our life is frail, and we may die to-day."

-Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great

"Yet should there hover in their restless heads One thought, one grace, one wonder at the least, Which into words no virtue can digest."

-Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great

"Nay, could their numbers countervail the stars, Or ever-drizzling drops of April showers, Or wither'd leaves that autumn shaketh down, Yet would the Soldan by his conquering power So scatter and cons…"

-Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great

Cover of The Rover by Aphra Behn, Simon Trussler

5. The Rover

By: Aphra Behn , Simon Trussler

3.18

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

Aphra Behn was the first female professional writer in England and the most prolific playwright of … read more

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  • classics
  • school
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Cover of 'Tis Pity She's a Whore by John  Ford, Martin Wiggins

6. 'Tis Pity She's a Whore

By: John Ford , Martin Wiggins

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

One of the most controversal plays in drama literature, this play's treatment of the subject of inc… read more

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Cover of King Lear by William Shakespeare, William James Rolfe

7. King Lear

By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe

3.91

Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more

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  • classics
  • tragedy
  • school
  • british literature
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  • fiction
  • plays
"Fortune love you."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"She is herself a dowry."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"All dark and comfortless."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"Nothing can come of nothing."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

Cover of A Bold Stroke for a Wife by Susanna Centlivre, Nancy Copeland

8. A Bold Stroke for a Wife

By: Susanna Centlivre , Nancy Copeland

3.44

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A Bold Stroke for a Wifeis perhaps the finest example of Centlivre's masterful plotting of comic in… read more

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  • school
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Cover of The Faerie Queene, Book One by Edmund Spenser, Andrew Hadfield, None, None, None

9. The Faerie Queene, Book One

By: Edmund Spenser , Andrew Hadfield , None , None , None

3.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

Framed in Spenser's distinctive, opulent stanza and in some of the trappings of epic, Book One of S… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • school
  • read for school
Cover of The Lais of Marie de France by Marie de France, Glyn S. Burgess, Keith Busby

10. The Lais of Marie de France

By: Marie de France , Glyn S. Burgess , Keith Busby

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

This is a prose translation of the lais or poems attributed to Marie de France. Little is known of … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of The Knight of the Burning Pestle by John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont

11. The Knight of the Burning Pestle

By: John Fletcher , Francis Beaumont

4.22

Format: None pages,

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Cover of Volpone by Ben Jonson

12. Volpone

By: Ben Jonson

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Bitter, satiric comedy in blank verse is one of the great Elizabethan dramatist's finest plays. The… read more

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Cover of Pericles by William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine

13. Pericles

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

3.95

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Folger Shakespeare Library: the world's leading center for Shakespeare studies. Each edition includ… read more

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  • plays
  • classics
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Cover of Henry V by William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine

14. Henry V

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

4.00

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

Henry Vis Shakespeare's most famous "war play"; it includes the storied English victory over the Fr… read more

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  • school
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Cover of Utopia by Paul Turner, Thomas More

15. Utopia

By: Paul Turner , Thomas More

3.55

Format: 113 pages, Paperback

In his most famous and controversial book, Utopia, Thomas More imagines a perfect island nation whe… read more

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  • fiction
  • classics
  • school
"The change of the word does not alter the matter"

-Paul Turner, Utopia

"Isn't this conception of absolute justice absolutely unjust?"

-Paul Turner, Utopia

"Dünyada kaygısız, rahat yürekle, sevinçle yaşamaktan daha büyük zenginlik olabilir mi?"

-Paul Turner, Utopia

"Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all."

-Paul Turner, Utopia

Cover of As You Like It by William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine

16. As You Like It

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

3.59

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

As You Like Itis a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 or … read more

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  • plays
  • fiction
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  • school

17. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Written by Himself

By: Olaudah Equiano , Robert J. Allison

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

Widely admired for its vivid accounts of the slave trade, Olaudah Equiano's autobiography -- the fi… read more

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18. The Book of Margery Kempe

By: Margery Kempe , Lynn Staley

2.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Contexts" collects primary readings that illuminateThe Book of Margery Kempe. Included are excerpt… read more

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19. East is East

By: None

4.31

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

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20. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

By: Unknown , None , Burton Raffel

4.50

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Written by an anonymous 14th-century poet, this epic poem is recognized as an equal of Chaucer's ma… read more

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21. Oroonoko

By: Aphra Behn , Janet Todd

3.78

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

When Prince Oroonoko's passion for the virtuous Imoinda arouses the jealousy of his grandfather, th… read more

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22. The Revenger's Tragedy

By: Thomas Middleton

4.13

Format: None pages,

In the family of passions none is more patient than hate. This masterpiece of the Elizabethan stage… read more

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23. King Henry IV, Part 1 (Wars of the Roses, #2)

By: William Shakespeare , David Scott Kastan

3.87

Format: None pages, Paperback

David Scott Kastan lucidly explores the remarkable richness and the ambitious design of King Henry … read more

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24. The Spanish Tragedy

By: Thomas Kyd , None

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

Large Format for easy reading. Highly popular and influential in the development of Elizabethan dra… read more

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25. Areopagitica

By: John Milton

4.34

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

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26. The Duchess of Malfi

By: John Webster

3.00

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

More widely studied and more frequently performed than ever before, John Webster's The Duchess of M… read more

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27. The Rover and Other Plays: The Rover; The Feigned Courtesans; The Lucky Chance; The Emperor of the Moon

By: Aphra Behn , Jane Spencer

4.22

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Aphra Behn (1640-89) was both successful and controversial in her own lifetime; her achievements ar… read more

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28. Richard II

By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill , None

3.91

Format: 385 pages, Paperback

Richard II is one of Shakespeare's finest works: lucid, eloquent, and boldly structured. It can be … read more

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29. Measure for Measure

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

4.38

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

Measure for Measureis among the most passionately discussed of Shakespeare's plays. In it, a duke t… read more

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30. Titus Andronicus

By: William Shakespeare

3.68

Format: 268 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Titus Andronicus is one of Shakespeare's earliest and bloodiest tragedies and was hugely successful… read more

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  • classics
  • tragedy
  • school
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"Hark, villains! I will grind your bones to dust. (Act V, Scene 2, 2503)"

-William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus

"Sorrow concealèd, like an oven stopped, Doth burn the heart to cinders where it is."

-William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus

"Villain, what hast thou done? Aaron: That which thou canst not undo. Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother. Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother."

-William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus

"Now is a time to storm; why art thou still? TITUS ANDRONICUS: Ha, ha, ha! MARCUS ANDRONICUS: Why dost thou laugh? it fits not with this hour. TITUS ANDRONICUS: Why, I have not another tear to shed:"

-William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus

Cover of Paradise Lost by John Milton, John      Leonard

31. Paradise Lost

By: John Milton , John Leonard

3.84

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the… read more

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"What hath night to do with sleep?"

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Solitude sometimes is best society."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

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3.71

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Arden of Faversham

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3.47

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4.29

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