DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks

1597 Marlowe, Christopher 1 & 2 Tamburlaine the Great

Reference Information

DEEP #: 5019
Greg #: n/a
STC/Wing #: 17427
Record Type: Collection
Play Type: Collection of Adult Professional Plays
Genre (Annals): n/a
 
Book Edition: 3
Play Edition: n/a
Format: Octavo
Leaves: 88
Black Letter: Yes
Date of First Publication: 1590
Date of First Production: n/a
Company of First Production: n/a
Company Attribution: Admiral's (Nottingham's) Men
 
Total Editions: 3 octavos
 

Title-Page Features

Title: Tamburlaine the Great. Who, from the state of a Shepheard in SCYTHIA, by his rare and wonderfull Conquests, became a most puissant and mightie Monarque.
Author:
Performance: As is was acted: by the right Honorable, the Lord Admyrall his Seruauntes.
Imprint: Printed at London by Richard Iohnes: at the Rose and Crowne, next aboue St. Andrewes Church in Holborue. 1597.

Paratextual Material

To the Reader: "To the Reader" headed "To the Gentlemen Readers: and others that take pleasure in reading Histories" signed "R. I. Printer" (Richard Jones) [A2r]

Stationer Information

Printer: Jones, Richard
Imprint Location: V.4 (Holborn - St. Andrew's Church)
Entries in Stationers' Register: Aug 14, 1590: Entered to Richard Jones: "The twooe commicall discourses of Tomberlein the Cithian shepparde".