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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... Queen of Carthage, draws its story and even quotes directly from Virgil's Aeneid. Even more tellingly, Edward the Second is full of allusions to classical literature even though its subject is the reign of a medieval English monarch ...
... Queen of Carthage , a play that Marlowe may have written while still at Cambridge , indicates that it was first performed by boy actors from the Children of Her Majesty's Chapel . Tamburlaine the Great , which dramatizes the eponymous ...
... Queen Elizabeth's favour, and extend to the weeks before his death, when his former roommate and fellow dramatist Thomas Kyd was arrested and tortured because government offi- cials discovered in Kyd's room part of an heretical treatise ...
... Queen of Carthage was performed in one of these hall theatres by a company of boy actors , and Edward the Second may have had its first performance in a hall in Leicester ( Forker 14 ) , but all of Marlowe's other plays were likely ...
... Queen Anne's Servants , in the second decade of the seventeenth century . There are no further recorded perform- ances of the play , however , until the twentieth century , when William Poel directed the play at the New Theatre in ...
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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 |