Editing Christopher Marlowe (section)

=== ''Tamburlaine, Part I'' ({{circa|1587}}); ''Part II'' ({{circa|1587}}–1588) ===

[[File:Tamburlaine title page.jpg|thumb|upright=0.70|Title page of the earliest published edition of ''[[Tamburlaine]]'' (1590)]]

'''First official record''' 1587, Part I

'''First published''' 1590, Parts I and II in one [[octavo]], [[London]]. No author named.<ref name="Chambers Vol. 3">{{cite book |last1=Chambers |first1=E. K. |title=The Elizabethan Stage. Vol. 3 |date=1923 |publisher=Clarendon Press |location=Oxford |page=421}}</ref>

'''First recorded performance''' 1587, Part I, by the [[Admiral's Men]], London.{{efn|Performing company is listed on the title page of the 1590 octavo. Henslowe's diary first lists Tamburlaine performances in 1593, so the original playhouse is unknown.<ref name="Brooke Tamburlaine">{{cite book |last1=Brooke |first1=C.F. Tucker |editor1-last=Brooke |editor1-first=C.F. Tucker |title=The Works of Christopher Marlowe |date=1910 |publisher=Clarendon Press |location=Oxford |pages=1–5 |edition=1964 Reprint |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015067093248&view=1up&seq=9 |access-date=27 May 2020 |chapter=Tamburlaine |archive-date=4 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220904211125/https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015067093248&view=1up&seq=9 |url-status=live }}</ref>}}

'''Significance''' ''[[Tamburlaine]]'' is the first example of [[blank verse]] used in the [[drama|dramatic literature]] of the [[English renaissance theatre|Early Modern English theatre]].

'''Attribution''' Author name is missing from first printing in 1590. Attribution of this work by scholars to Marlowe is based upon comparison to his other verified works. Passages and character development in ''Tamburlane'' are similar to many other Marlowe works.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Marlowe |first=Christopher |year=1971 |title=Tamburlaine |publisher=Ernst Benn Limited |location=London |editor=J.W. Harper}}</ref>

'''Evidence''' No manuscripts by Marlowe exist for this play.{{sfnp|Maguire|2004|p=44}} Parts I and II were entered into the Stationers' Register on 14 August 1590. The two parts were published together by the London printer, Richard Jones, in 1590; a second edition in 1592, and a third in 1597. The 1597 edition of the two parts were published separately in quarto by Edward White; part I in 1605, and part II in 1606.<ref name=":N"/><ref name="Chambers Vol. 3"/>