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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... 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 Diana - Acteon Myth 1. From Arthur Golding , The XV Books ...
... 3. From James I of England and VI of Scotland, The True Law of Free Monarchies (1603) • 237 Works Cited and Further Reading • 243 Acknowledgements I would like to thank Brock University's Humanities Research 6 CONTENTS.
... Scotland and France. Baronial opposition to 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 ...
... the impor- tance of Scotland in Edward's reign , see David Cornell's Bannockburn : The Triumph of Robert the Bruce . Catholic authorities, European Protestants developed their own theories of legitimate 22 INTRODUCTION.
... Scotland and France. The conflict with Scotland began in the previous reign, when Edward I intervened in the 1290s in the dispute between two rival claimants to the Scottish throne, Robert Bruce and John Balliol. Edward established 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 |