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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... Earl of Leicester's Men, built a freestanding open-air playhouse in the northern suburbs of London. Aptly named the Theatre, this playhouse had a neighbour, the Curtain, a year later. More freestanding open-air playhouses were built ...
... Earl of March in 1328, con- trolled government under Edward III's seal. In 1330, perhaps in response to rumours that Mortimer intended to make himself king, Edward seized him at Nottingham castle and sent him to London to be hanged and ...
... earls begirt us round ? " ( 6.218- 20 ) . The barons , however , force Edward to care . They assault Tynemouth and capture and execute Gaveston , just as later in the play they will hunt Edward down in the abbey at Neath and capture and ...
... Earl of Cornwall is an emphatic display of his power as king and an attempt to fill important government positions with men who are far more obliged to him than the well - estab- lished and independent barons . " The headstrong barons ...
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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 |