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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... entered “petty school” to learn his alphabet and the catechism (Riggs 26). After petty school Marlowe would have progressed to grammar school for six years. The grammar school curriculum reflected the agenda of Renaissance Europe's ...
... entering on the main stage to be taken prisoner by Bolingbroke. The difference between king and subject has been eliminated. In Edward the Second, however, Marlowe avoids such highly charged vertical symbolism. David Bevington and James ...
... enter from one side of the stage and Warwick and Lan- caster enter from the other, both groups already fuming against Edward and Gaveston before they meet in the middle of the stage to plot Gaveston's exile together. In scene twelve ...
... enter- taining Edward with a performance of the Diana - Acteon myth in which " a lovely boy in Dian's shape , / With hair that gilds the water as it glides , / Crownets of pearl about his naked arms ” ( 1.59-61 ) holds " in his sportful ...
... enter- tainment that will " best please his majesty ” ( 1.69 ) . At the play's other end , in scene twenty Marlowe converts Holinshed's account of Edward's response to the demand that he abdicate ( see Appendix A1 [ h ] ) into a 24 ...
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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 |