007 Shakespeare’s Rival: Christopher Marlowe’s Tamburlaine, Part 1

The Avengers Endgame of its day! The bombastic bio-play of the Middle Eastern conqueror Timur. Written by Christopher Marlowe, smoker, spy, and Shakespeare’s best frenemy. After 400 years does this uber-popular, uber-influential hit of the Elizabethan stage still hold up? Michael, Greg and Sophie dig in.

 

Sources:

Christopher Marlowe: The Critical Heritage, ed. Miller MacLure, from Routledge

“Christopher Marlowe” in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Charles Nicholl, https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-18079

The Cambridge Companion to Christopher Marlowe, ed. Patrick Cheney, from Cambridge University Press:

• “Marlowe and the English Literary Scene” by James P Bednarz