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    Tamburlaine the Great - Part I: "All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial."
    Tamburlaine the Great - Part I: "All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial."
    Tamburlaine the Great - Part I: "All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial."
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    Tamburlaine the Great - Part I: "All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial."

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    Christopher Marlowe was born in Canterbury to shoemaker John Marlowe and his wife Catherine. His exact date of birth is not known, but he was baptised on 26 February 1564. And with this, Christopher Marlowe, one of the supreme English literary talents, made his entrance into the world. Little is really known of his life except that from an early age, even at University, he was perhaps working as a spy. His short life was filled with writing great works of exceptional quality. From the Jew of Malta to Doctor Faustus and Tamburlaine the Great Parts I & II his pen was the tool by which this great mind bequeathed great works to the world. Add to this so many other stories of what Marlowe was or might have been: a spy, a brawler, a heretic, a "magician", "duellist", "tobacco-user", "counterfeiter", “atheist”, and "rakehell". But certainly add to this; playwright and poet. An original. Christopher Marlowe was buried in an unmarked grave in the churchyard of St. Nicholas, Deptford on June 1st, 1593. Had his life not been so curtailed it seems that the Elizabethan Age may well have had two giants of equal standing: Shakespeare and Marlowe.

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    Release dateNov 27, 2015
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    Tamburlaine the Great - Part I: "All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial."
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    Christopher Marlowe

    Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe, was an English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe is among the most famous of the Elizabethan playwrights.

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      Tamburlaine the Great - Part I - Christopher Marlowe

      Tamburlaine the Great, Part I by Christopher Marlowe

      IN TWO PARTS

      Christopher Marlowe was born in Canterbury to shoemaker John Marlowe and his wife Catherine. His exact date of birth is not known, but he was baptised on 26 February 1564.

      And with this, Christopher Marlowe, one of the supreme English literary talents, made his entrance into the world. 

      Little is really known of his life except that from an early age, even at University, he was perhaps working as a spy.  His short life was filled with writing great works of exceptional quality. From the Jew of Malta to Doctor Faustus and Tamburlaine the Great Parts I & II his pen was the tool by which this great mind bequeathed great works to the world.

      Add to this so many other stories of what Marlowe was or might have been: a spy, a brawler, a heretic, a magician, duellist, tobacco-user, counterfeiter, atheist, and rakehell.

      But certainly add to this; playwright and poet. An original.

      Christopher Marlowe was buried in an unmarked grave in the churchyard of St. Nicholas, Deptford on June 1st, 1593.

      Had his life not been so curtailed it seems that the Elizabethan Age may well have had two giants of equal standing: Shakespeare and Marlowe.

      Index Of Contents

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

      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

      CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE – A SHORT BIOGRAPHY

      CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE – A CONCISE BIBLIOGRAPHY

      The text of this edition is from the 8vo of 1592, collated with the 4tos of 1605-6.

      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 4 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,

      Richard Jones, printer.

      THE FIRST PART OF TAMBURLAINE THE GREAT

      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

      THE FIRST PART OF TAMBURLAINE THE GREAT.

      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

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