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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Early modern English society was highly conscious of social status, and Christopher Marlowe was born squarely into the artisanal class: his father was a shoemaker who, although he managed to run his own shop and hold municipal office, ...
He became Edward II of England when his father, Edward I, died on 7 July 1307. In January 1308, Edward married Isabella of France in Boulogne. Edward was 23 years old at the time; Isabella was 12. Edward I and Philip IV of France, ...
One of his first acts as king was to cancel the campaign against the Scots that his father had left in progress at his death. In 1314 he led a large army against the Scots only to see his poorly organized forces crushed at the battle of ...
U této knihy jste dosáhli svého limitního počtu zobrazení..
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Recenze od uživatele - Stevil2001 - LibraryThingThis is one of the plays we were supposed to read in a revenge tragedy course that I took, but after I had purchased it, the professor dropped it from the syllabus in favor of Titus Andronicus. My ... Přečíst celou recenzi
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Recenze od uživatele - antiquary - LibraryThingExtremely funny in the way the complex plot comes together at the end. To me, the best of this series of revivals. Přečíst celou recenzi
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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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Bibliografické údaje
| 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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