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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... Isabella draws Mortimer Junior apart from the rest of the barons in order to persuade him to consent to Gaveston's recall from banishment. By withdrawing to the side and toward the back of the stage, Isabella and Mortimer create a ...
... Isabella was 12. Edward I and Philip IV of France, Isabella's father, had negoti- ated the match in 1299 as part of their efforts to bring harmony to the relationship between the two countries. Edward II reigned for approximately twenty ...
... Isabella , and Mor- timer . The Despensers's rapacity and consequent unpopularity contributed in no small measure to the ease with which Edward was defeated . Edward's 1322 triumph proved to have been tem- porary , and ultimately the ...
... Isabella's brother. Because of Edward's reluctance to perform his homage, Charles in 1324 confiscated Edward's French territories in Gascony. In 1325 Isabella and Prince Edward sailed to France, ostensibly to negotiate peace between the ...
... Isabella's army advances on London in 1326 , London's artisans revolt against the authorities established by Edward and deliver the city to her ; after parliament legislates Edward's depo- sition in favour of his son , the Archbishop of ...
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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 |