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    Christopher Marlowe

    Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) was a 16th century playwright, poet, and translator. Considered to be the most famous playwright in the Elizabethan era, Marlowe is believed to have inspired major artists such as Shakespeare. Marlowe was known for his dramatic works that often depicted extreme displays of violence, catering to his audience’s desires. Surrounded by mystery and speculation, Marlowe’s own life was as dramatic and exciting as his plays. Historians are still puzzled by the man, conflicted by rumors that he was a spy, questions about his sexuality, and suspicions regarding his death.

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      Tamburlaine the Great Parts 1 and 2 by Christopher Marlowe - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) - Christopher Marlowe

      The Complete Works of

      CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

      VOLUME 2 OF 21

      Tamburlaine the Great Parts 1 and 2

      Parts Edition

      By Delphi Classics, 2015

      Version 5

      COPYRIGHT

      ‘Tamburlaine the Great Parts 1 and 2’

      Christopher Marlowe: Parts Edition (in 21 parts)

      First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Delphi Classics.

      © Delphi Classics, 2017.

      All rights reserved.  No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form other than that in which it is published.

      ISBN: 978 1 78877 465 9

      Delphi Classics

      is an imprint of

      Delphi Publishing Ltd

      Hastings, East Sussex

      United Kingdom

      Contact: sales@delphiclassics.com

      www.delphiclassics.com

      Christopher Marlowe: Parts Edition

      This eBook is Part 2 of the Delphi Classics edition of Christopher Marlowe in 21 Parts. It features the unabridged text of Tamburlaine the Great Parts 1 and 2 from the bestselling edition of the author’s Complete Works. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. Our Parts Editions feature original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of Christopher Marlowe, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

      Visit here to buy the entire Parts Edition of Christopher Marlowe or the Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe in a single eBook.

      Learn more about our Parts Edition, with free downloads, via this link or browse our most popular Parts here.

      CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE

      IN 21 VOLUMES

      Parts Edition Contents

      The Plays

      1, Dido, Queen of Carthage

      2, Tamburlaine the Great Parts 1 and 2

      3, The Jew of Malta

      4, Doctor Faustus - a Text and B Text

      5, Edward II

      6, The Massacre at Paris

      The Apocryphal Play

      7, Lust’s Dominion

      The Poetry

      8, Translation of Book One of Lucan’s the Pharsalia

      9, Translation of Ovid’s Elegies

      10, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

      11, The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd by Sir Walter Raleigh

      12, Hero and Leander

      13, Fragment

      14, In Obitum Honoratissimi Viri, Rogeri Manwood, Militis, Quæstorii Regi- Nalis Capitalis Baronis

      15, Dialogue in Verse

      16, Epigrams by J.D.

      The Criticism

      17, The Criticism

      The Biographies

      18, Marlowe and His Associates by John H. Ingram

      19, The Muses’ Darling by Charles Norman

      20, Christopher Marlowe - Outlines of His Life and Works by J. G. Lewis

      21, The Death of Christopher Marlowe by J. Leslie Hotson

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      Tamburlaine the Great Parts 1 and 2

      TAMBURLAINE THE GREAT PART 1

      This two part play is loosely based on the life of the Central Asian emperor, Timur ‘the lame’. Written in 1587 or 1588, the play is a landmark in Elizabethan drama, turning away from the clumsy language and loose plotting of the earlier Tudor dramatists, and fashioning a new interest in vivid language, memorable action, and intellectual complexity. As well as Thomas Kyd’s The Spanish Tragedy, it may be considered the first popular success of London’s public stage.  The two plays had a lasting effect on many of the Elizabethan plays that followed, including Shakespeare’s great tragedies.

      Both parts of the play were entered into the Stationers’ Register on August 14, 1590 and published in a single octavo later the same year by the printer Richard Jones. A second edition was issued by Jones in 1592. The plays were next published separately in quarto by the bookseller Edward White, Part 1 in 1605 and Part 2 in 1606.

      The narrative opens in Persepolis, the Ancient capital of Persia. The Emperor Mycetes dispatches troops to dispose of Tamburlaine, a Scythian shepherd and nomadic bandit causing unrest in the area.

      A forensic facial reconstruction of Timur the Lame- the real life Tamburlaine

      CONTENTS

      THE PROLOGUE.

      DRAMATIS PERSONAE.

      ACT I.

      SCENE I.

      SCENE II.

      ACT II.

      SCENE I.

      SCENE II.

      SCENE III.

      SCENE IV.

      SCENE V.

      SCENE VI.

      SCENE VII.

      ACT III.

      SCENE I.

      SCENE II.

      SCENE III.

      ACT IV.

      SCENE I.

      SCENE II.

      SCENE III.

      SCENE IV.

      ACT V.

      SCENE I.

      TO THE GENTLEMEN-READERS AND OTHERS THAT TAKE PLEASURE IN READING HISTORIES.

      Gentlemen and courteous readers whosoever:  I have here published

      in print, for your sakes, the two tragical discourses of the

      Scythian shepherd Tamburlaine, that became so great a conqueror

      and so mighty a monarch.  My hope is, that they will be now no

      less acceptable unto you to read after your serious affairs and

      studies than they have been lately delightful for many of you to

      see when the same were shewed in London upon stages.  I have

      purposely omitted and left out some fond and frivolous

      gestures,

      digressing, and, in my poor opinion, far unmeet for the matter,

      which I thought might seem more tedious unto the wise than any

      way else to be regarded, though haply they have been of some

      vain-conceited fondlings greatly gaped at, what time they were

      shewed upon the stage in their graced deformities:  nevertheless

      now to be mixtured in print with such matter of worth, it would

      prove a great disgrace to so honourable and stately a history.

      Great folly were it in me to commend unto your wisdoms either the

      eloquence of the author that writ them or the worthiness of the

      matter itself.  I therefore leave unto your learned censures

      both the one and the other, and myself the poor printer of them

      unto your most courteous and favourable protection; which if you

      vouchsafe to accept, you shall evermore bind me to employ what

      travail and service I can to the advancing and pleasuring of your

      excellent degree.

      Yours, most humble at commandment,

      R[ichard] J[ones], printer.

      THE PROLOGUE.

      From jigging veins of rhyming mother-wits,

      And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay,

      We’ll lead you to the stately tent of war,

      Where you shall hear the Scythian Tamburlaine

      Threatening the world with high astounding terms,

      And scourging kingdoms with his conquering sword.

      View but his picture in this tragic glass,

      And then applaud his fortunes as you please.

      DRAMATIS PERSONAE.

      MYCETES, king of Persia.

      COSROE, his brother.

      MEANDER,]

      THERIDAMAS,  ]

      ORTYGIUS, ] Persian lords.

      CENEUS, ]

      MENAPHON, ]

      TAMBURLAINE, a Scythian shepherd.

      TECHELLES,]

      USUMCASANE,  ] his followers.

      BAJAZETH, emperor of the Turks.

      KING OF FEZ.

      KING OF MOROCCO.

      KING OF ARGIER.

      KING OF ARABIA.

      SOLDAN OF EGYPT.

      GOVERNOR OF DAMASCUS.

      AGYDAS, ]

      MAGNETES, ] Median lords.

      CAPOLIN, an Egyptian.

      PHILEMUS, Bassoes, Lords, Citizens, Moors, Soldiers, and

      Attendants.

      ZENOCRATE, daughter to the Soldan of Egypt.

      ANIPPE, her maid.

      ZABINA, wife to BAJAZETH.

      EBEA, her maid.

      Virgins of Damascus.

      ACT I.

      SCENE I.

      Enter MYCETES, COSROE, MEANDER, THERIDAMAS, ORTYGIUS,

      CENEUS, MENAPHON, with others.

      MYCETES. Brother Cosroe, I find myself agriev’d;

      Yet insufficient to express the same,

      For it requires a great and thundering speech:

      Good brother, tell the cause unto my lords;

      I know you have a better wit than I.

      COSROE. Unhappy Persia, — that in former age

      Hast been the seat of mighty conquerors,

      That, in their prowess and their policies,

      Have triumph’d over Afric, and the bounds

      Of Europe where the sun dares scarce appear

      For freezing meteors and congealed cold, —

      Now to be rul’d and govern’d by a man

      At whose birth-day Cynthia with Saturn join’d,

      And Jove, the Sun, and Mercury denied

      To shed their influence in his fickle brain!

      Now Turks and Tartars shake their swords at thee,

      Meaning to mangle all thy provinces.

      MYCETES. Brother, I see your meaning well enough,

      And through your planets I perceive you think

      I am not wise enough to be a king:

      But I refer me to my noblemen,

      That know my wit, and can be witnesses.

      I might command you to be slain for this, —

      Meander, might I not?

      MEANDER. Not for so small a fault, my sovereign lord.

      MYCETES. I mean it not, but yet I know I might. —

      Yet live; yea, live; Mycetes wills it so. —

      Meander, thou, my faithful counsellor,

      Declare the cause of my conceived grief,

      Which is, God knows, about that Tamburlaine,

      That, like a fox in midst of harvest-time,

      Doth prey upon my flocks of passengers;

      And, as I hear, doth mean to pull my plumes:

      Therefore ’tis good and meet for to be wise.

      MEANDER. Oft have I heard your majesty complain

      Of Tamburlaine, that sturdy Scythian thief,

      That robs your merchants of Persepolis

      Trading by land unto the Western Isles,

      And in your confines with his lawless train

      Daily commits incivil outrages,

      Hoping (misled by dreaming prophecies)

      To reign in Asia, and with barbarous arms

      To make himself the monarch of the East:

      But, ere he march in Asia, or display

      His vagrant ensign in the Persian fields,

      Your grace hath taken order by Theridamas,

      Charg’d with a thousand horse, to apprehend

      And bring him captive to your highness’ throne.

      MYCETES. Full true thou speak’st, and like thyself, my lord,

      Whom I may term a Damon for thy love:

      Therefore ’tis best, if so it like you all,

      To send my thousand horse incontinent

      To apprehend that paltry Scythian.

      How like you this, my honourable lords?

      Is it not a kingly resolution?

      COSROE. It cannot choose, because it comes from you.

      MYCETES. Then hear thy charge, valiant Theridamas,

      The chiefest captain of Mycetes’ host,

      The hope of Persia, and the very legs

      Whereon our state doth lean as on a staff,

      That holds us up and foils our neighbour foes:

      Thou shalt be leader of this thousand horse,

      Whose foaming gall with rage and high disdain

      Have sworn the death of wicked Tamburlaine.

      Go frowning forth; but come thou smiling home,

      As did Sir Paris with the Grecian dame:

      Return with speed; time passeth swift away;

      Our life is frail, and we may die to-day.

      THERIDAMAS. Before the moon renew her borrow’d light,

      Doubt not, my lord and gracious sovereign,

      But Tamburlaine and that Tartarian rout

      Shall either perish by our warlike hands,

      Or plead for mercy at your highness’ feet.

      MYCETES. Go, stout Theridamas; thy words are swords,

      And with thy looks thou conquerest all thy foes.

      I long to see thee back return from thence,

      That I may view these milk-white steeds of mine

      All loaden with the heads of killed men,

      And, from their knees even to their hoofs below,

      Besmear’d with blood that makes a dainty show.

      THERIDAMAS. Then now, my lord, I humbly take my leave.

      MYCETES. Theridamas, farewell ten thousand times.

      [Exit THERIDAMAS.]

      Ah, Menaphon, why stay’st thou thus behind,

      When other men press forward for renown?

      Go, Menaphon, go into Scythia,

      And foot by foot follow Theridamas.

      COSROE. Nay, pray you, let him stay; a greater [task]

      Fits Menaphon than warring with a thief:

      Create him pro-rex of all Africa,

      That he may win the Babylonians’ hearts,

      Which will revolt from Persian government,

      Unless they have a wiser king than you.

      MYCETES. Unless they have a wiser king than you!

      These are his words; Meander, set them down.

      COSROE. And add this to them, — that all Asia

      Lament to see the folly of their king.

      MYCETES. Well, here I swear by this my royal seat —

      COSROE. You may do well to kiss it, then.

      MYCETES. Emboss’d with silk as best beseems my state,

      To be

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