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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... king Edward's right!” (35), Edward shouts back. Marlowe also makes effective use of the stage's depth to dramatize the complex relationship between public and private spaces in the play. In scene four, for example, Isabella draws ...
... royal authority, the central political conflict of Edward the Second, was not a new problem in English history. In 1215 it had culminated in the barons compelling King John to sign the Great Charter or Magna Carta, a bill of baronial ...
... Edward consented to Gaveston's exile several times . The barons were not satisfied on this score , however , until they had seized Gaveston from the king and executed him in June 1312. The con- flict between the king and the barons ...
... Edward II's reign, regularly conducting extended and extremely destructive raids into northern England. Edward II did not meet the Scottish challenge well. One of his first acts as king was to cancel the cam- paign against the Scots ...
... king's hall that stood without the walls , gave forth that he was son and right heir of king Edward the first , and that by means of a false nurse he was stolen out of his cradle , and this Edward the second being a carter's son was ...
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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 |