Abstract
The myth of Tamburlaine’s success violates the Elizabethan political desire by fully fulfilling it. Tamburlaine’s limitless victory and continuous conquest fulfill the desire of the contemporary ruling party, but also involve the political desire to violate it. He is not only a hero who shows off the Christian and imperial ideal, but also an anti-Christian savage who challenges the status of God beyond Christian paradigm. Therefore, through Tamburlaine, Marlowe shows the surprising wonder of military victory, conquest, and power as well as the critical defects of such success behind the scene. The discourse of imperial hero represented in Tamburlaine cannot exclude the barbarous brutality. After all, Tamburlaine’s completely contradictory aspects play the role of resisting the contemporary English imperial consciousness, and reveal the violence and madness hidden behind the ruling order and value system of the society.
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