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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... Gaveston ( and , in a complicated way , Edward ) in Edward the Second . Though seductive and temporarily triumphant , these figures are ultimately destroyed by themselves as much as by the forces to which they are opposed . From ...
... Gaveston, as the Mor- timers 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 ...
... Gaveston's transgression of social hierarchy is visually fore- grounded through his clothing ( Bailey 79-81 ) . Although of rela- tively humble origins - Lancaster calls him " base and obscure " ( 1.99 ) Gaveston dresses lavishly , well ...
... Gaveston as explicitly homosexual , and in the murder scene Lightborn kissed and embraced Edward before killing him . The Royal Shakespeare Company's 1990 production took the homoerotic dimension even further , staging Edward's ...
... Gaveston , whose conduct after being recalled from banishment upon Edward's accession the barons had found intolerable . Indeed , under duress from the barons Edward consented to Gaveston's exile several times . The barons were not ...
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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 |