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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... barons are divided. At Christmas, some of Cambridge's colleges offered other role-playing opportunities for their students in the form of school plays acted and often written by the students (Honan 72). Marlowe's university education ...
... barons' assault on Edward's castle at Tynemouth, which present opportunities for the effective use of the space. Shakespeare's Richard the Second, a play about another weak late-medieval English monarch, features an analo- gous moment ...
... barons' mounting opposition to Edward and Gaveston, as the Mor- timers enter from one side of the stage and Warwick and Lan- caster enter from the other, both groups already fuming against Edward and Gaveston before they meet in the ...
... barons ' refusal to kneel in scene one , Edward seating Gaveston on the throne beside him in scene four , and Edward's kneeling in scene eleven to swear revenge upon the barons for Gaveston's death are simple examples of symbolic action ...
... barons compelling King John to sign the Great Charter or Magna Carta, a bill of baronial rights to property, due legal process , and power . Edward I reissued the Magna. 1 For a full account of the play's stage history until the 1990s ...
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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 |