of anarchy, its complete moral disorder and collapse, its 
     delight in insulting and disregarding the past, its 
     repudiation of every ancient authority and tradition, that 
     he is worth studying. And if we add to this that he 
     contrived a weapon for his own ends which has in our own 
     day come to be more powerful than any established 
     government or elected parliament or hereditary 
     monarchy—publicity, the Press—there is more than 
     sufficient excuse for this book. (69)

     Print as a public address system that gave huge power of 
amplification to the individual voice, soon made itself a new 
form of expression, namely the Elizabethan popular drama. The 
opening lines of the very popular Tamburlaine the Great  by 
Christopher Marlowe provide all our new themes: