Historical Fiction
Marlowe’s blank-verse epic follows a Scythian shepherd’s ruthless rise through conquest, ambition, and tyranny across two parts.
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Marlowe’s blank-verse epic follows a Scythian shepherd’s ruthless rise through conquest, ambition, and tyranny across two parts.
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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work
What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Captive Zenocrate becomes Tamburlaine’s beloved and wife; romance without explicit sex
Violence & gore
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Conquest massacres, caged kings, chariot-harnessing, deaths; much gore described
Profanity
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Period oaths, blasphemy, and strong Elizabethan diction; no modern profanity
Substance use
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No evidence found in available sources
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No LGBTQIA+ representation present
Religious content
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Quran burning; challenges to God; Christian and Muslim faith central themes
Magic & witchcraft
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No magic or witchcraft present
Occult / demonology
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No occult or demonology content present
Political content
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Central themes of tyranny, conquest, ambition, and rulers’ legitimacy
Self-harm / suicide
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On-stage suicides, including captives dashing out their own brains
Abuse & suffering
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Prisoner caging and humiliation; civilian slaughter; cruel domination of captives
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