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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... actors. As Park Honan, one of Marlowe's most recent biographers, puts it, “The city itself was like a gigan- tic theatre ... acting experiences at the grammar school, where student performances of classical plays or suitably moral- ized ...
... actors and professional adult actors performed regularly . The title page of Dido , 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 ...
... actors performed interludes and other fare in expectation of some recompense for their acting, whether that be food and lodging or cash (preferably both). Professional actors seem occasionally to have been hired in the production of ...
... acting area . The dressing room area was behind the façade . A cover , the " heavens , " sheltered the central acting area from rain and could also house the machinery necessary for lowering and raising props and actors to and from the ...
... actors' lines (Gurr 187-200). Nonetheless, with its various levels and acting areas the amphitheatre stage could be a very complex space. One of the most noticeable aspects of Marlowe's stagecraft in Edward the Second is the limited use ...
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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 |