The protagonist of that play claims to "hold the Fates bound fast in iron chains, And with my hand turn Fortune's wheel about."
In one of this author's plays, a caged man asks his wife to fetch him a drink before dashing his head against the bars and killing himself. The protagonist of that play claims to "hold the Fates bound fast in iron chains, And with my hand turn Fortune's wheel about." Another character created by him dies when a knight blows a trumpet and he falls into the trap he had set for Calymath. Walter Raleigh's poem "The Nymph's Reply" was a response to a pastoral poem by him. One play by this author of Tamburlaine the Great, Parts I and II has a prologue delivered by Machiavel. The title character of another play asks asks to see "the face that launch'd a thousand ships". For 10 points, name this English Renaissance author of The Jew of Malta, "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" and The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus.
In one of this author's plays, a caged man asks his wife to fetch him a drink before dashing his head against the bars and killing himself.
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