Tamburlaine the Great
Subtitle: Part two
By: Christopher Marlowe ; edited by Anthony B. Dawson
Contributors: Dawson, Anthony B., editor; Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Subjects: Drama
Description: Part two sees Tamburlaine grow more vicious as his imperial power becomes permanent. Family members are dispensed with; rivals and local chieftains summarily murdered; even God is challenged. Tamburlaine dies unrepentant, telling his sons to continue to conquer the world in his memory. 'Tamburlaine' is Marlowe's seminal play: with the story of a complex and ruthless conqueror he created a magnificent theatrical architecture of power and ambition and proclaimed a new kind of verse.
Notes: Previously issued in print: in Tamburlaine. London: A. & C. Black, 2005.