Tamburlaine the Great — Part 1 by Christopher Marlowe

First published in the year 1587, ‘Tamburlaine the Great — Part 1’ is a play written by one of the critically most acclaimed and appreciated playwrights of the sixteenth century, who was also a contemporary of the celebrated William Shakespeare. This 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 new interest in fresh and vivid language, memorable action, and intellectual complexity.