TAMBURLAINE THE GREAT, IN TWO PARTS. This is Part I. By Christopher Marlowe Edited By The Rev. Alexander Dyce. Skip to Part II. The square brackets, i.e. [ ] are copied from the printed book, without change, except that the stage directions usually do not have closing brackets. These have been added. For this E-Text version of the book, the footnotes have been consolidated at the end of the play. Numbering of the footnotes has been changed, and each footnote is given a unique identity in the form [XXX]. Character names were expanded. For Example, TAMBURLAINE was TAMB., ZENOCRATE was ZENO., etc. GREEK: One word, appearing in note 115, was printed in Greek Characters. This word has been transliterated as [deiktikos]. CONTENTS TO THE GENTLEMEN-READERS AND OTHERS THAT TAKE PLEASURE THE FIRST PART OF TAMBURLAINE THE GREAT. ACT I. SCENE I.