Tamburlaine is described as a “monster that hath drunk a sea of blood,” suggesting that he drinks the blood of humans. He is identified as a hydra, the multi-headed monster with the upper body of a woman and the lower body of a snake. He is a monster alienated from God

DEFINE: Explains the hydra imagery as a symbol of monstrosity and godlessness in Tamburlaine.

Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imag…, loc. 281