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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... London, in Kent. He was the second child and first son of John and Katherine Marlowe, both immigrants from sur- rounding towns. Early modern English society was highly con- scious of social status, and Christopher Marlowe was born ...
... London, part of the tide of domestic and foreign immigrants who were rapidly swelling the population of the metropolis throughout the sixteenth century. Even though mortality rates significantly exceeded birth rates , London had ...
... London was the heart of the printing and publish- ing trade , as well as the home of a variety of theatrical venues- halls , inns , large open - air playhouses - on whose stages compa- nies of both semi - professional boy actors and ...
... London. James Burbage, who managed a company of adult actors known as the Earl of Leicester's Men, built a freestanding open-air playhouse in the northern suburbs of London. Aptly named the Theatre, this playhouse had a neighbour, the ...
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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 |