Edward the SecondBroadview Press, 15. 10. 2010 - Počet stran: 256 Depicting with shocking openness the sexual and political violence of its central characters’ fates, Edward the Second broke new dramatic ground in English theatre. The play charts the tragic rise and fall of the medieval English monarch Edward the Second, his favourite Piers Gaveston, and their ambitious opponents Queen Isabella and Mortimer Jr., and is an important cultural, as well as dramatic, document of the early modern period. This modernized and fully annotated Broadview Edition is prefaced by a critical but student-oriented introduction and followed by ample appendix material, including extended selections from Marlowe’s historical sources, texts bearing on the play’s complex sexual and political dynamics, and excerpts from contemporary poet Michael Drayton’s epic rendition of Edward the Second’s reign. |
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... England, 1284-1327—Drama. I. Martin, Mathew R., 1970– II. Title. III. Series: Broadview editions PR2665.A2M38 2010 822'.3 C2010-904266-2 Broadview Editions The Broadview Editions series represents the ever-changing canon of literature ...
... England, Scotland, and Ireland (1587) • 173 2. From John Stow, The Annals of England (1592) • 182 Appendix B: From Michael Drayton, Mortimeriados (1596) • 187 Appendix C:The Diana-Actæon Myth • 199 1. From Arthur Golding, The XV Books ...
... (1648) • 231 3. From James I of England and VI of Scotland, The True Law of Free Monarchies (1603) • 237 Works Cited and Further Reading • 243 Acknowledgements I would like to thank Brock University's Humanities Research 6 CONTENTS.
... England was hierarchical, its education system gave poor but intellectually gifted males a chance to rise in the world. Most boys, even those from humble backgrounds, had the opportunity to acquire a rudimentary schooling. At six or ...
... England and the Barons's right!” (34), Warwick shouts. “Saint George for England and king Edward's right!” (35), Edward shouts back. Marlowe also makes effective use of the stage's depth to dramatize the complex relationship between ...
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A Brief Chronology of His Life and Times | 33 |
A Note on the Text | 37 |
EDWARD THE SECOND | 39 |
Marlowes Historical Sources | 173 |
From Michael Drayton Mortimeriados The Lamentable Civil Wars of Edward the Second and the Barons 1596 | 187 |
The DianaActæon Myth | 199 |
On Friendship | 205 |
Sodomy | 219 |
Kings and Tyrants | 229 |
Works Cited and Further Reading | 243 |