Robert Stewart Sherriffs worked as a cartoonist and caricaturist, specializing in portraits of theater and cinema stars. That would remain his primary vocation until his death in 1960. However, it was when his career intersected with the legacy of Christopher Marlowe that Sherriffs ventured into DMR Blog territory. His illustrations for The Life and Death of Tamburlaine the Great are extravagant, grotesque, surreal—much like the play they illustrate.