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Zenocrate and Zabina in Marlowe’s Tamburlaine


Posted by tasnim on 21 Feb 2012 / 0 Comments
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The two parts of Christopher Marlowe’s play Tamburlaine, loosely based on the life of  the Central Asian emperor Timur the Lame, tell the story of the Scythian shepherd who becomes a conqueror of kings. Although this play was written in the 1588,  it gives us an insight into representations of Muslim women at the time […]

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