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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Marlowe wrote another four plays before his 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, ...
The most extensive of these documents, a report submitted to the government three days after Marlowe's death by Richard Baines (with whom Marlowe was caught attempting to counterfeit Dutch coins in Flushing in early 1592), ...
Marlowe was notorious enough that even in death he was the subject of gossip and moralizing. The account of Marlowe in Thomas Beard's The Theatre of God's Judgement (1597), included below in Appendix E4, fashions Marlowe's death into a ...
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 ...
Edward's degradation, torture, and 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 ...
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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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