Tamburlaine in Two Broadside Ballads: A Brave Warlike Song and Saint Georges Commendation to All Souldiers.

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.