C. M.: Outlines of his Life and Works (1891); F. S. Boas, New Light on M. (1899, Fortnightly Review, lxxi, 212); J. H. Ingram, C. M. and his Associates (1904); H. Jung, Das Verhältniss M.'s zu Shakespeare (1904); W. L. Courtney, C. M. (Fortnightly Review, 1905, ii. 467, 678); A. Marquardsen, C. M.'s Kosmologie (1905, Jahrbuch, xli. 54); J. Le G. Brereton, The Case of Francis Ingram (Sydney Univ. Publ. v); G. C. Moore Smith, Marlowe at Cambridge (1909, M. L. R. iv. 167); F. C. Danchin, Études critiques sur C. M. (1912-13, Revue Germanique, viii. 23; ix. 566); C. Crawford, The Marlowe Concordance (1911, Materialien, xxxiv, pt. i only); F. K. Brown, M. and Kyd (T. L. S., 2 June, 1921).
Tamburlaine. c. 1587
S. R. 1590, Aug. 14 (Hartwell). 'The twooe commicall discourses of Tomberlein the Cithian shepparde.' Richard Jones (Arber, ii. 558).
1590. Tamburlaine the Great. Who, from a Scythian Shephearde by his rare and wonderfull 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 seruantes. Now first, and newlie published. Richard Jones [8vo]. [Epistle to the Readers, signed 'R. I. Printer'; Prologues to both Parts. See Greg, Plays, 66; Masques, cxxv. Ingram, 281, speaks of two 4tos and one 8vo of 1590, probably through some confusion.]
1592. R. Jones. [Greg, Masques, cxxv, thinks that the date may have been altered in the B.M. copy from 1593. Langbaine mentions an edition of 1593.]
1597. [An edition apparently known to Collier; cf. Greg, Masques, cxxv.]
1605. For Edward White. [Part i.]
1606. E. A. for E. White. [Part ii.]
Editions by A. Wagner (1885) and K. Vollmöller (1885) and of Part i by W. A. Neilson (1911, C. E. D.).—Dissertations: C. H. Herford, The Sources of M.'s T. (Academy, 20 Oct. 1883); L. Frankel, Zum Stoffe von M.'s T. (1892, E. S. xvi. 459); E. Köppel in Englische Studien, xvi. 357; E. Hübner, Der Einfluss von M.'s Tamburlaine auf die zeitgenössischen und folgenden Dramatiker (Halle diss. 1901); F. G. Hubbard, Possible Evidence for the Date of T. (1918, M. L. A. xxxiii. 436).
There is no real doubt as to Marlowe's authorship of Tamburlaine, but the direct evidence is very slight, consisting chiefly of Greene's (q.v.) Perimedes coupling of 'that atheist Tamburlan' with 'spirits as bred of Merlin's race', and Harvey's allusion to its author as dying in 1593. Thomas Heywood, in his prologue to The Jew of Malta, speaks of Alleyn's performance in the play. The entry printed by Collier in Henslowe's Diary of a payment to Dekker in 1597 'for a prolog to Marloes tambelan' is a forgery (Warner, 159; Greg, Henslowe, i. xxxix). The Admiral's produced 'Tamberlan' on 30 Aug. 1594. Henslowe marks the entry 'j', which has been taken as equivalent to 'n. e.', Henslowe's symbol for a new play, and as pointing
