Tamburlaine - Dover Thrift Editions Author:Christopher Marlowe From one of England's greatest playwrights, a remarkably inventive and poetically expressive work that set the form for later Elizabethan dramas. The two-part romantic tragedy focuses on Tamburlaine—a Mongol warrior whose relentless rise to greatness and power, together with his enormous greed and vanity, culminates in his eventual downfall.