Timur

: For the chess engine Tamerlane, see Tamerlane.

Fiction

Timur Lenk was the subject of two plays (Tamburlaine the Great, Parts I and II) by English playwright Christopher Marlowe.

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Bob Bainborough portrayed Tamerlane in an episode of History Bites.

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Bob Bainborough - History Bites

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George Frideric Handel made Timur Lenk the title character of his Tamerlano (HWV 18), an Italian language opera based on the 1675 play Tamerlan ou la mort de Bajazet by Jacques Pradon.

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George Frideric Handel - Italian language - Opera - 1675 - Jacques Pradon

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Edgar Allan Poe's first published work was a poem entitled "Tamerlaine".

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German-Jewish writer and social critic Kurt Tucholsky, under the pen name of Theobald Tiger, wrote the lyrics to a cabaret song about Timur, called Mir ist heut' so nach Tamerlan (1922), roughly translatable as "To me, it's so much like Tamerlan nowadays." The song was an allegory about German militarism, as well as a wry commentary on German fears of "Bolshevism" and the "Asiatic hordes from the East."

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Kurt Tucholsky - Theobald Tiger

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