Tamburlaine the Great, Part One

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Tamburlaine the Great, Part One

Eric Fraser (1902-1983)

Price

£950

Signed

Signed

Medium

Ink with bodycolour

Dimensions

5 ¼ x 3 ¼ inches

Provenance

The Artist's Estate by descent

Illustrated

Radio Times, 12 March 1964, for broadcast on the Third Programme on Thursday 19 March 1964 at 8.30pm

Exhibited

'The Illustrators. The British Art of Illustration 1870-2021', Chris Beetles Gallery, November 2021-January 2022, No 168

Christopher Marlowe’s epic two-part play, Tamburlaine the Great (1587-88), is a landmark in the development of Elizabethan drama, as a result of its ambitious use of language, its striking action and its complex ideas. It was loosely based on the life of the fourteenth-century Central Asian emperor, Timur, though Marlowe chose to suggest that he had originally been a Scythian shepherd. The second BBC production of the play was first broadcast on the Third Programme on 19 and 20 March 1964, with Stephen Murray in the title role.
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