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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... abrupt end on 30 May 1593 , when he was fatally stabbed in the eye by one Ingram Frizer at an inn in Deptford , just down the Thames from London proper.The authorities accepted Frizer's claim that he had acted in 12 INTRODUCTION.
... authorities were, however, and have proposed as alternatives a number of conspir- acy theories. These theories reach back into Marlowe's Cam- bridge days, when he may have been recruited into one of the several intelligence networks run ...
... 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 rights ...
... authority to be illegitimate : in the vocabulary of early modern political theory , she was not a monarch but a ... authorities, European Protestants developed their own theories of legitimate 22 INTRODUCTION.
Christopher Marlowe Mathew R. Martin. Catholic authorities, European Protestants developed their own theories of ... authority was illegitimate. Appendix F of this edition presents the reader with arguments from all sides of 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 |