Tamburlaine the Great, Parts I and II (Regents Renaissance Drama)

xxvi, 205 pp. Christopher Marlowe (1564 - 1593) has been called the founder of English drama and the perfecter of dramatic blank verse. He is known as a poet and translator of Lucan and Ovid, and as a guide and leader for Shakespeare and the other Elizabethan poets and dramatists. Tamburlaine the Great was his most ambitious work and the first play written in English blank verse.