A Scythian shepherd rises through ruthless conquest to become the scourge of Asia. Marlowe's mighty two-part tragedy of overreaching ambition.
Books that mention Tamburlaine the Great (1)
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie: “an antique theatre review in which the English critic, Kenneth Tynan, had imagined the polysyllabic characters in Marlowe's Tamburlaine the Great as 'a horde of pills and wonder drugs bent on decimating one another'”