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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... death in 1593 : Doctor Faustus ( c . 1589 ) , The Jew of Malta ( c . 1590 ) , Massacre at Paris ( c . 1591 ) , and Edward the Second ( c . 1592 ) ( Kuriyama 80- 81 ) . Although this chronology is not exact , from Tamburlaine to Edward ...
... death, when his former roommate and fellow dramatist Thomas Kyd was arrested and tortured because government offi- cials discovered in Kyd's room part of an heretical treatise Kyd claimed was Marlowe's.1 Indeed, by the time of his death ...
... death into a negative moral example illustrating the divinely ordained fate of epicures and atheists. After providing numerous examples from ancient and modern history, Beard writes that “[n]ot inferior to any of the former in atheism ...
... death are simple examples of symbolic action . More extended examples include the barons ' display of shields in scene six , Edward's vacillation with his crown in scene twenty , and the champion's challenge in scene twenty - three ...
... death also acquire symbolic resonance , echoing both the Diana - Actæon myth invoked in the play's opening scene and narratives of Christ's passion . Edward's murder , of course , is the play's major piece of symbolic action . The play ...
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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 |