MARLOWE’S TAMBURLAINE THE GREAT AND WESTERN IMPERIALISM
Keywords:
real/true man, imperialist tradition, scepticism, patriarchy, matriarchyAbstract
Many critics associate Marlowe’s plays, particularly Tamburlaine the Great, with Machiavelli’s political theory. In the following discussion on Tamburlaine and Western imperialism, I hope to demonstrate that Marlowe’s views cannot be identified with Machiavelli’s, as many critics seem to believe, and that on the contrary, they are much closer to Montaigne’s scepticism about political power and colonial expansion. Marlowe’s significance today is certainly bound up with the fact that imperialist tradition, far from being the thing of the past, persists in new and more insidious guises – Tamburlaine the Great is the spiritual and literary ancestor of such modern heroes like Joseph Conrad’s Kurtz and J.M.Coetzee’s Jacobus Coetzee and Eugene Dawn.
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