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- Title
Tamburlaine in Two Broadside Ballads: A Brave Warlike Song and Saint Georges Commendation to All Souldiers.
- Authors
Bowers, Rick
- Abstract
The article discusses how the Elizabethan play "Tamburlaine," by Christopher Marlowe, influenced Jacobean popular culture by focusing on two broadside ballads. The ballads are part of the Pepys Collection at Magdalene College, Cambridge University, and are the 1612 "Saint Georges commendation to all Souldiers" and the c. 1626 "A brave warlike Song," both published in London, England. The author argues that the ballads reflect British print culture's fascination with militarism by their representation of the historic Tamburlaine, also known as Timur, founder of the Timurid Empire, as an English hero.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; ENGLISH ballads; POPULAR culture &; literature; TIMUR, 1336-1405; TAMBURLAINE the Great (Play : Marlowe); HEROES in literature; PRINT culture; POPULAR culture; REIGN of James I, Great Britain, 1603-1625; REIGN of Elizabeth I, England, 1558-1603; PAMPHLETS; ENGLISH music; MUSIC history
- Publication
Notes & Queries, 2009, Vol 56, Issue 4, p551
- ISSN
0029-3970
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1093/notesj/gjp155