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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... Holinshed , The Third Volume of Chronicles of England , Scotland , and Ireland ( 1587 ) 173 • 2. From John Stow , The Annals of England ( 1592 ) • 182 Appendix B : From Michael Drayton , Mortimeriados ( 1596 ) · 199 Appendix C : The ...
... Holinshed's The Third Volume of Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland, which he supple- mented with the accounts of Edward's reign found in John Stow's The Annals of England (1592) and the Chronicle (1559) of Robert Fabyan ...
... Holinshed . Gaveston's banishment and the amount of time between the play's final two scenes are good examples of dramatic compres- sion . As Holinshed records , Gaveston was banished several times from England before his death in 1312 ...
... Holinshed's account provides a running moral commentary on the people and events of Edward's reign , converting them into ( mostly neg- ative ) moral examples that illustrate the destructiveness of various vices , especially in kings ...
... Holinshed's concern with England as a nation , the dying John of Gaunt deplores the fact that “ This blessed plot , this earth , this realm , this England " ( 2.1.50 ) has been " leased out - I die pronouncing it— / Like to a tenement ...
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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 |