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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... crown " ( 4.413-14 ) . Through his clothing Gaveston aggressively flaunts his rapid social rise , and “ tis this that makes me impatient " ( 418 ) , Mortimer Junior tells his uncle . The use of clothing to transgress social class made ...
... crown, Edward inher- ited from his father several problems: baronial opposition, and conflict with Scotland and France. Baronial opposition to royal authority, the central political conflict of Edward the Second, was not a new problem ...
... crown , and Canterbury's sermon is not mentioned . In Shakespeare's Richard the Second , a history play that reflects Holinshed's concern with England as a nation , the dying John of Gaunt deplores the fact that “ This blessed plot ...
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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 |