Marlowe's Soldiers: Rhetorics of Masculinity in the Age of the Armada. By ALAN SHEPARD. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate. 2002. viii+248 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7546-0229-x.
Amid his sequence of leather-gloved homicides for the RSC, Antony Sher played Tamburlaine (Stratford and London, 1992, dir. Terry Hands). At one moment Sher memorably continued speaking his mighty lines (which had audiences bouncing iambically in their seats) while climbing a rope, his breathing ...