1) English Renaissance play 2) Ruler 3) Swayer 4) Tamerlane 5) Timur 6) Timur lenk 1) Tamerlane 2) Timur 
[play] Tamburlaine the Great is a play in two parts by Christopher Marlowe. It is loosely based on the life of the Central Asian emperor, Timur `the lame`. Written in 1587 or 1588, the play is a milestone in Elizabethan public drama; it marks a turning away from the clumsy language and loose plotting of the earlier Tudor dramatists, and a n...