PART II
DRAMATIS PERSON.^
Tamburlaine, King of Persia.
Calyphas, ^
Amyras, [his sons.
Celebinus, i
Theridamas, King of Argier.
Techelles, King of Fez.
UsuMCASANE, King of Morocco.
Orcanes, King of Natolia.
King of Trebizon.
King of Soria.
King of Jerusalem.
King of Amasia.
Gazellus, Viceroy of Byron.
Uribassa.
Sigismund, King of Hungary.
-p ry^TTsj ' \lords of Buda and Bohemia.
Callapine, son to Bajazeth, and prisoner to Tamburlaine.
Almeda, his keeper.
Governor of Babylon.
Captain of Balsera.
His Son.
Another Captain.
Maximus, Perdicas, Physicians, Lords, Citizens, Messengers,
Soldiers, and Attendants.
Zenocrate, wife to Tamburlaine.
Olympia, wife to the Captain of Balsera.
Turkish Concubines.
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Dramatis PersoncB.
The list of these was first added
by Dyce. It does not appear in
the octavos. The characters added
to those of the first part are num-
erous, only Tamburlaine, Zeno-
crate and the three original fol-
lowers remaining. Of the twenty
additional characters, very few
are mentioned and still fewer
named by Marlowe's authorities.
Calyphas. This name seems to be
Marlowe's own adaptation of the
common title Caliph or Calipha,
which he could have found in
Bizarus and many of the authors
he consulted. ' It is odd ', says
Miss Seaton,^ in speaking of the
names of the sons of Tambur-
laine, ' that he adopted such
Turkish titles as those now
familiar to us in Caliph, Emir
and Ameer to form names for
princes supposedly Scytho-Egyp-
tian by birth, Persian by rule.
He may have taken a hint from
Lonicerus : Vocatur idem gen-
erali nomine Amiras et Caliphas,
quod successorem significat :
summumque Principem, penes
quem imperii et religionis po-
testas esset, quales fuere Baby-
lonis, ubi regni postmodum fuit
sedes, hoc nomine intellexerunt
{op. cit., 1578, I, f. 3 ; 1584, I,
5).' The three sons of Timur
are named by Chalcondylas
Sachruchus, Paiangures and Ab-
dulatriphes ; Sacruch appears
also in other accounts.
Amyras. See above note.
Celebinus. This is the title of
the heir of Bajazet, a name
recorded in many histories of
the Turkish empire. Lonicerus,
as Miss Seaton points out,
explains it ' as a title in connec-
tion with this heir of Bajazet,
Calepine, as both he and Marlowe
style him.' Marlowe has, then,
simply transferred the title and
made it the name of one of
Tamburlaine's sons.
Orcanes. This is the name of an
earlier Turkish emperor (1328-
1350) which Marlowe has trans-
ferred to the king of Natolia
(approximately Turkey) con-
temporary with the last years
of Tamburlaine. Orcanes was
the son of Ottomanes, the foun-
der of the dynasty, and was the
grandfather of Bajazeth.
King of Trebizon, of Soria, of
Jerusalem, of Amasia. The
names of these kings, like those
of the African kings in the first
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