It's the old rags to riches story, really - real America. An ambitious man, born with no spoon in his mouth, rises to power through sheer brilliant audacity. Spoilers follow: He even manages to marry the daughter of a rival of higher social class, after overcoming that rival. He's domineering, ruthl

It’s hard not to get swept up in the military triumphalism of this heroic epic, particularly Part One. Tamburlaine the shepherd uses his wit and audacious ambition to rise to emperor, smashing the existing order and tearing down the nobility in the process.

As with all his plays, Marlowe skirts the

The Rise and Fall of a Conqueror
16 January 2014

I was going to have a look at both of these plays as a whole, but it appears that both of these plays are in fact a ten act play divided into two parts. This seemed to also be something of a debate with some of Shakespeare's plays, however the ones tha

Christopher Marlowe is one of the most influential writers who ever lived. The first great Elizabethan playwright—if Shakespeare is The Beatles, astonishing in range, quality, sheer invention, and fame, Marlowe is inventing rock’n’roll. Marlowe was the first English writer, Tamburlaine the first Eng

Lo spregiudicato, maledetto, dissoluto ed avventuroso Marlowe non avrebbe potuto incarnarsi in un personaggio più che nel suo Tamerlano, il grande condottiero vissuto nel XIV secolo, colui che assoggettò quasi interamente l'Asia ai suoi piedi, salvo morire improvvisamente nel suo apogeo. Nella trage

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Read this one for uni - not really my kind of thing, but I managed to get into the first half. It was interesting seeing the story of a tyrant, with no excuses made over his awfulness and his violence shown in full course. It's a brutal story, one full of bloody scenes, but it appe

Like his desire, lift upwards and divine

Tamburlaine is epic and merciless. Kit gave us an orientalist paen, but one woven with gilded verse, an elevating counterpoint to the interminable bloodshed. Marlowe’s canvas is vast, as the dying Tamburlaine commands: Give me a map. The extant world systems

Karakterleri ve olay örgüsüyle belki de en olgun Christopher Marlowe oyunu olan "Büyük Timurlenk I-II / Tamburlaine, The Great I-II", dramatik yapısıyla en azından finaline kadar ağırlığına koruyan Shakespeare’le yarışacak derecede başarılı epik bir oyun örneği. İlk yarısıyla Timur’un yükselişini ko

"TAMERLÁN EL GRANDE" de Cristopher Marlowe
"¡Guarda tu honor! ¡Pues hace mucho no sabías lo que quería decir!"
Estoy muy feliz de haber terminado esta obra que consta de dos partes (la segunda a pedido del público) pues ya puedo decir que he leído todas las tragedias de este gran dramaturgo isabelino.