The First chapter

The object and subject of the work.As a source of the research work we have chosen Ch.Marlowe’s tragedy “Tamburlaine the Great” and Muhammad Ali’s novel “Ulug saltanat (Great dynasty)”. However to analyze the degree of historical validity and literary fiction in the tragedy and novel we addressed the works of Ibn Arabshah¹, Sh.A.Yazdi², H.Lamb³, H.Hookhem⁴, J.Marozzi⁵, Jean Paul Roux⁶ and others.
The purpose of my exploratory work is to define the problem of the historical literary personage - real existed person. Everybody knows that in the world literature there are very many novels and dramas about great historical persons. This process began, of course, not near past, but its roots goes far to the past. Firstly, the deeds of the national heroes were sung orally: in the folklores, in ballads, dastans, tales, romances and so on. But later, with the appearing of paper and developing of different genres, these deeds found their depiction in novels, dramas as well. And, of course, the main aim of the work is to learn the literary activity and legacy of the writer, to analise his drama “Tamburlaine the Great” and to find out the problems concerning the depiction of the main character, and of course the degree of historical validity tackled in his drama. The achievement of the aim determines the following tasks:

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   to research forming and developing processes of literary interests concerning Amir Temur in England as well as in Uzbekistan;
   
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   to research the creative life of Christopher Marlowe and Muhammad Ali;
   
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   to find out the connection of the authors biographical facts with historic, social and economical situation of the period in England and in Uzbekistan;
   
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   to find the details of social problems in “Tamburlaine the Great” and “Ulug saltanat”;
   
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   to define the degree of historical validity of the image of Amir Temur in the works of Christopher Marlowe and Muhammad Ali;
   
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   to define the degree of historical validity and literary fiction of the drama and novel;
   
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   to define the objective and subjective factors which caused the writers to write their works about the great historical person;