Edward the SecondDepicting 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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... Beard writes that “[n]ot inferior to any of the former in atheism and impiety, and equal to all in manner of punishment, was one of our own nation, of fresh and late memory, called Marlin, by profession a scholar, brought up from ...
execution with full frontal nudity, and Derek Jarman's provocative 1991 film adaptation undertook to transform what Jarman called a “dusty old play” into “a film of a gay love affair” (qtd. in Forker 116).1 Deborah Willis comments that ...
For example, Holinshed relates that in 1318 a naughty fellow called John Poindras, or (as some books have) Ponderham, a tanner's son of Exeter coming to Oxford, and there thrusting himself into the king's hall that stood without the ...
... nothing is of more greater estimation than love, called in Latin amor, whereof amicitia cometh, named in English friendship or amity” (Appendix D1), and according to Elyot true friendship can exist only between “good men.
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Recenze od uživatele - Stevil2001 - LibraryThingThis is one of the plays we were supposed to read in a revenge tragedy course that I took, but after I had purchased it, the professor dropped it from the syllabus in favor of Titus Andronicus. My ... Přečíst celou recenzi
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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 |
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| Název | Edward the Second |
| Autor | Christopher Marlowe |
| Redaktor | Mathew R. Martin |
| Vydavatel | Broadview Press, 2010 |
| ISBN | 1770481206, 9781770481206 |
| Délka | Počet stran: 256 |
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