This flashcard summarizes Thomas Preston's 1569 play, "Cambyses, King of Persia." It is characterized as a tragedy with comedic elements, written in rhyming couplets with seven iambic feet. The play depicts King Cambyses as mad, vengeful, and doomed by an oracle, and is referenced in Shakespeare's dialogue.
This flashcard describes 'Cambyses, King of Persia,' a 1569 play by Thomas Preston. It's noted as a tragedy mixed with mirth, written in rhyming couplets of seven iambic feet, and features an erratic and vengeful king whose madness and death are foretold by a deceitful oracle. The play is referenced in a warning by Falstaff about speaking in the 'King Cambyses' vein.'
| Front | Cambisis, King of Persia |
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| Back | a lamentable tragedy mixed full of mirth 1569 Thomas Preston Cambisis is erratic as well as vengeful, sinking into madness and dying exactly as had been predicted by a deceitful oracle rhyming couplets composed of seven iambic feet this play comes from Falstaff's warning that 'I must speak in passion, and I will do it in King Cambyses' vein' |
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