Tamburlaine the Great

Christopher Marlowe

Manchester University Press, 1998 - Drama - 226 pages

Tamburlaine the Great achieved, and sustained, great success on the Elizabethan stage. And it speaks provocatively to our own time, when it has been the subject of numerous major productions. Timur Khan--to give Tamburlaine his original name--was long perceived in the West as a ruthless conqueror, whose career was marked by vindictive massacres, the sacking of enemy cities and the assertion of egotistic will. In this light, his career connects with twentieth-century experience of genocide, ideological justifications of brutality and conflicts of rival religions’ faiths. It is significant that the 1990s--four centuries on from Marlowe’s play--have seen the development in Uzbekistan, of a vindication of Timur, perceived as a heroic and admirable figure in this state newly "liberated" from the Soviet hegemony.

Contents

• Section 1: 1
• Section 2: 33
• Section 3: 41
• Section 4: 42
• Section 5: 60
• Section 6: 79
• Section 7: 97
• Section 8: 113
• Section 9: 135
• Section 10: 137
• Section 11: 138
• Section 12: 156
• Section 13: 169
• Section 14: 190
• Section 15: 207

About the author

J. S Cunningham was, until his retirement, Professor of English at the University of Leicester Eithne Henson is a retired Lecturer of English Literature.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Tamburlaine the Great; Revels Student Editions; The Revels Plays
• Author: Christopher Marlowe
• Editors: J. S. Cunningham, Eithne Henson
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Manchester University Press, 1998
• ISBN: 0719054362, 9780719054365
• Length: 226 pages
• Subjects: Drama / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Drama / General; Literary Criticism / Drama; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism / Modern / 16th Century; Literary Criticism / Renaissance