Tamburlaine Must Die is a novella written by Louise Welsh, which imagines the last days of Christopher Marlowe's life in 1593.

Marlowe is sentenced to death for this blasphemous writing and only has three days to figure out who really wrote the pamphlet and track that individual down.

An individual writing under the name Tamburlaine published a bill about London threatening Protestant refugees who had settled in the city.

[2] On the negative side, one reviewer felt the "narrative fails to convey adequately the sense of trepidation and urgency that one would expect from such a desperate man"[3] and Alan Wall in The Guardian called it "buccaneering tosh".

[4] Fittingly for a novella based on a famous playwright, the book was adapted for the stage by Kenny Miller in 2007.