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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... dramatic career came to an abrupt end on 30 May 1593 , when he was fatally stabbed in the eye by one Ingram Frizer at an inn in Deptford , just down the Thames from London proper.The authorities accepted Frizer's claim that he had acted ...
... dramatic blank verse, his formative influence on early modern English tragedy and Shakespeare's history plays, and even his influence on the come- dies of Ben Jonson through the bleak farce of a play such as The Jew of Malta.1 It is ...
... dramatic symbolism of these different levels to great effect (Gurr 182). The main stage also contained three different horizontal areas: if the main action of the play took place in the central area of the stage, a withdrawal to the ...
... dramatic necessity compelled Marlowe to select from , rearrange , and compress the events recounted in his historical sources . For example , Holinshed relates that in 1318 a naughty fellow called John Poindras , or ( as some books have ) ...
... dramatic economy , coherence , and power , however . Every historical narrative tells its story in a par- ticular way , with its own ideological bias or slant . Holinshed's account provides a running moral commentary on the people and ...
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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 |