The First chapter

Scientific novelty of the work. There is its prototype of each literary personage - real existed person. Sometimes this is the author himself, sometimes - a historical personality, sometimes - familiar or relative of the author. Often having read that or other product, influenced by the event and hero, described by author, one wants to know whether this personality really existed, who was this person without fiction of the writer indeed, and what line of the nature has prefixed him the author?
A lot of scientific work has been done in order to learn the literary legacy of Christopher Marlowe. Actually, lots of literary scientists such as E.Bartels⁷, M.T.Barnett⁸, S.Greenblatt⁹, L.Hopkins¹⁰, T.M.Pearce¹¹, S.Shepherd¹², W.Zunder¹³, R.Wilson¹⁴, R.Sales¹⁵, Ch.Nichol¹⁶, P.H.Kocher¹⁷, T.Haly¹⁸ made their literary analyses and scientific researches on the “Tamburlaine the Great”, but the degree of historical validity of the image of Amir Temur and the problems concerning the main character from the historical point of view was not analised before. In Uzbekistan this tragedy was literary analyzed and searched by H.Karamatov, but either from not the point of view of the degree of the historical validity. Besides the historical novel of Muhammad Ali “Ulug saltanat” is considered to be quite new in literature and hasn’t been learned from the scientific point of view yet. And the most important point in our work is to compare the depiction of the image of Amir Temur in the English and Uzbek literature, to compare the degree of the historical validity of his image in the literature of the West and East, to gain the factors which cause the writers to chose this historical person as a prototype for their literary fiction.
The methodological base of the work. During the investigation we based on a lot of western scientists’ research results. To criticize both literary fictions from the literary point of view we addressed to the works of Uzbek scientists such as M.Koshjanov, A.Quljonov, I.Sulton, A.Kattabekov, B.Fayziyev, H.Karomatov historians V.Bartold, R.Mukminova, A.Muhammadjonov and others. The method of comparative-historical analysis of literary texts is chosen to carry on the graduation qualification paper.