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NAME: PRALAY PATRA ROLL: ME COURSE: M.A. (ENGLISH) SEMESTER: 2ND SEM. INSTITUTION: R. B. C. COLLEGE, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

POWERPOINT PRESENTATION

COLONIAL DISCOURSE IN

TAMBURLAINE THE GREAT

INTRODUCTION

 (^) Tamburlaine is an English renaissance tragedy in two parts written by Christopher Marlowe.  (^) Loosely based on the life of Asian emperor Timur, it was written in 1587 and was first performed in the same year.  (^) Though Timur was from noble ancestry Marlowe draw the character of Tamburlaine as a Scythian for his dramatic purpose.  (^) It is a play about a renaissance power thirsty man.

COLONIALISM

 (^) The term colony once meant something very different. It came from the Latin ‘colon-us’ meaning the settlements of the Romans in a new country.  (^) Later the term began to mean the colonies of the British in American history.  (^) But in the 18th and 19th centuries colonization meant a violent exploitation of native races by European powers like the British rule in India.  Colonization often destroyed native cultures or altered them or often produce a new one like hybridism.

COLONIALISM IN THE PLAY

 (^) He defeats Bajazeth and makes him and his wife Zabina slaves by keeping them in cage and creates the binary opposition between.  (^) Tamburlaine is a man who thought about the self and does not care for others. Others who don’t follow him for them death is the only consequence.  (^) The character of Tamburlaine is a symbol of western invasion on the east.  (^) At the same time the colonial fear is displayed in Tamburlaine’s inverted colonialism as a threat towards the west.

CONCLUSION

Tamburlaine’s conquest is nothing but the

Renaissance imperial invasion of the west to

the ‘New World’.