Tamburlaine and Othello threatened English racial purity as monstrous hybrids of multiple races.

Evidence

Negative depictions of Muslim characters featured in Elizabethan drama are numerous as well. Tamburlaine and Othello are representative of the monsters we are interested in here. As hybrids belonging to more than one monstrous race, they threatened notions of English racial purity. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 277

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘hybrid threatening racial purity’ frame crystallizes the reader’s monster/giant/demon taxonomy — Tamburlaine and Othello are the modern incarnations of the demon figure.