Born a penniless shepherd with a maimed ankle in the hinterlands of Scythia, the title character of this tragedy learns that with force can he achieve anything.
Born a penniless shepherd with a maimed ankle in the hinterlands of Scythia, the title character of this tragedy learns that with force can he achieve anything. At first, when he starts his revolution, his motives are idealistic, like those of his friends Techelles and Usumcasane. Their first great victory is over the Persian Emir, Bajazeth, whom the title character cages and whose wife, Zabina, he seduces. Then he overthrows the Sultan of Egypt and marries his daughter, Zenocrate, a beautiful princess both charmed and terrifed by him.  For ten points identify this 1591­1593 tragedy about a namesake conqueror of central Asia whose noble ideals are corrupted by violence and excess into bloodlust and tyranny, a 2­part Marlowe work.
Born a penniless shepherd with a maimed ankle in the hinterlands of Scythia, the title character of this tragedy learns that with force can he achieve anything.
{Tamburlaine} the Great