文档介绍：TAMBURLAINE THE GREAT
TAMBURLAINE THE
GREAT (FIRST PART)
EDITED BY THE REV. ALEXANDER DYCE.
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TAMBURLAINE THE GREAT
Tamburlaine the Great. Who, from a Scythian Shephearde by his rare
and woonderfull Conquests, became a most puissant and mightye
Monarque. And (for his tyranny, and terrour in Warre) was tearmed, The
Scourge of God. Deuided into two Tragicall Discourses, as they were
sundrie times shewed vpon Stages in the Citie of London. By the right
honorable the Lord Admyrall, his seruauntes. Now first, and newlie
published. London. Printed by Richard Ihones: at the signe of the Rose
and Crowne neere Holborne Bridge. 1590. 4to.
The above title-page is pasted into a copy of the FIRST PART OF
TAMBURLAINE in the Library at Bridge-water House; which copy,
excepting that title-page and the Address to the Readers, is the impression
of 1605. I once supposed that the title-pages which bear the dates 1605
and 1606 (see below) had been added to the 4tos of the TWO PARTS of
the play originally printed in 1590; but I am now convinced that both
PARTS were really reprinted, THE FIRST PART in 1605, and THE
SECOND PART in 1606, and that nothing remains of the earlier 4tos,
except the title-page and the Address to the Readers, which are preserved
in the Bridge- water collection.
In the Bodleian Library, Oxford, is an 8vo edition of both PARTS OF
TAMBURLAINE, dated 1590: the title-page of THE FIRST PART agrees
verbatim with that given above; the half-title-page of THE SECOND
PART is as follows;
The Second Part of The bloody Conquests of mighty Tamburlaine.
With his impassionate fury, for the death of his Lady and loue faire
Zenocrate; his fourme of exhortacion and discipline to his three sons, and
the maner of his own death.
In the Garrick Collection, British Museum, is an 8vo edition of both
PARTS dated 1592: the title-page of THE FIRST PART runs thus;
Tamburlaine the Great. Who, from a Scythian Shepheard, by his rare
and wonderfull Conqu