Tamburlaine is a play about an ambitious and pitiless Tartar conqueror in the fourteeth century who rose from a shepherd to an overpowering king.By flouting the given order and trampling on despairing princes,Tamburlaine displayed a high-aspiring mind that was self-created and carried by love and dreams beyond the limits of moral existence.His victories were a triumph of immense natural energy and of ruthlessness over equally cruel but weak and decadent civilizations.By depicting a great hero with high ambition and sheer brutal force in conquering one enemy after another,Marlowe voiced the supreme desire of the man of the Renaissance for infinite power and authority.In fact,Tamburlaine is a product of Marlowe's characteristically Renaissance imagination,fascinated by the earthly magnificence available to men of imaginative power who have the energy of their convictions.( reproduction of material without witten permission is strictly prohibited.Contact me for permission to copy this article,Hope you can make comments on them,email exiven@163.com. The above is taken from “ Selected Readings In English And American Literatures" Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press)