By Jenna Russell Safak Timur Anemona Hartocollis and Eduardo Medina Jenna Russell reported from Plymouth, Mass.; Safak Timur from Istanbul; Anemona Hartocollis from New York; and Eduardo Medina ...

The central character of Christopher Marlowe’s bloodthirsty and hugely popular drama Tamburlaine the Great, in which the fall of Damascus is a major episode, was the savage Turkic warlord the Persians ...