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"[In] Tamburlaine, a play in two parts, ... Marlowe’s inspired choice for his hero was Timur (c. 1330– 1405), a Turkic‑ Mongol Muslim warlord and founder of the Timurid dynasty... He is transformed into a lowly Scythian shepherd, a brilliant orator and charismatic overreacher who delights in humbling the mighty, whatever their beliefs, and whose ceaseless and apparently amoral appetite for conquest simultaneously appalled and enthralled the Elizabethan audience." (Jerry Brotton, This Orient Isle- Elizabethan England and the Islamic World) What does "overreacher" mean here?

"[In] Tamburlaine, a play in two parts, ... Marlowe’s inspired choice for his hero was Timur (c. 1330– 1405), a Turkic‑ Mongol Muslim warlord and founder of the Timurid dynasty... He is transformed into a lowly Scythian shepherd, a brilliant orator and charismatic overreacher who delights in humbling the mighty, whatever their beliefs, and whose ceaseless and apparently amoral appetite for conquest simultaneously appalled and enthralled the Elizabethan audience." (Jerry Brotton, This Orient Isle- Elizabethan England and the Islamic World) What does "overreacher" mean here?

"Not that Elizabeth really needed Murad’s help, as Walsingham was at pains to explain: ‘although her Majesty needeth no assistance of other princes yet shall it be a great encouragement and contentation to her Majesty as a more terror to the King of Spain, they having like interest, use like endeavour to abate his power. All which,’ concluded Walsingham, ‘as well to satisfy and stir up the Grand Signor as also to disgrace your adversaries in that court and country, I leave to yourself to be published, urged and enlarged as you shall see cause.’" (Jerry Brotton, This Orient Isle- Elizabethan England and the Islamic World) What does the emphasized phrase mean?