Editing Bayezid I (section)

==In fiction==
[[File:Tamerlan und Bajazet (Celesti).jpg|thumb|right|''[[Tamburlaine]] and Bajazeth'' (ca. 1700) by [[Andrea Celesti]].]]

The defeat of Bayezid became a popular subject for later Western European writers, composers, and painters. They embellished the legend that he was taken by Timur to [[Samarkand]] with a cast of characters to create an oriental fantasy that has maintained its appeal over the years. [[Christopher Marlowe]]'s play ''[[Tamburlaine (play)|Tamburlaine the Great]]'' was first performed in [[London]] in 1587, three years after the formal opening of English-Ottoman trade relations when [[William Harborne]] sailed for Constantinople as an agent of the [[Levant Company]].

In 1648, the play ''Le Gran Tamerlan et Bejezet'' by [[Jean Magnon]] appeared in London, and in 1725, [[Handel]]'s ''[[Tamerlano]]'' was first performed and published in London;<ref>London: Printed & sold by J. Cluer, [1725]</ref> [[Antonio Vivaldi|Vivaldi]]'s version of the story, ''[[Bajazet (opera)|Bajazet]]'', was written in 1735. Magnon had given Bayezid an intriguing wife and daughter; the Handel and Vivaldi renditions included, as well as Tamerlane and Bayezid and his daughter, a prince of Byzantium and a princess of [[Trabzon|Trebizond]] (Trabzon) in a passionate love story. A cycle of paintings in [[Schloss Eggenberg]], near [[Graz]] in [[Austria]], translated the theme to a different medium; this was completed in the 1670s shortly before the Ottoman army attacked the [[Habsburgs]] in central [[Europe]].<ref>Finkel, C. (2006) ''The History of the Ottoman Empire: Osman's Dream''. New York: Basic Books; p. 30</ref>

The historical novel ''The Grand Cham'' (1921) by [[Harold Lamb]] focuses on the quest of its European hero to gain the assistance of Tamerlane in defeating Bayezid.<ref>Lamb, Harold. ''Swords from the West''. Lincoln; University of Nebraska Press, 2009 {{ISBN|978-0-8032-2620-3}} (p. 603)</ref> Bayezid (spelled Bayazid) is a central character in the [[Robert E. Howard]] story ''Lord of Samarcand,''<ref>Howard, Robert E. (1973) ''Sowers of the Thunder,'' Ace Science Fiction</ref> where he commits suicide at Tamerlane's victory banquet. Bayazid is a main character in the novel ''The Walls of Byzantium'' (2013) by [[James Heneage]].<ref>" ''The Walls of Byzantium''...[where] The Armies of the Ottoman Emperor Bayazid threaten Constantinople and the few remaining outposts of its empire". Cited in "Three More Tales of the Byzantine Empire". ''[[BBC History]]'' Magazine, 10 September 2015 (p. 74).</ref>