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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... favour, and extend to the weeks before his 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 ...
... favour of the political , and did not stage Edward's murder . With the Prospect Theatre's Edinburgh Festi- val production of the play in 1969 , two years after Britain decrim- inalized homosexuality , the pendulum swung in the other ...
... on London in 1326 , London's artisans revolt against the authorities established by Edward and deliver the city to her ; after parliament legislates Edward's depo- sition in favour of his son , the Archbishop of EDWARD THE SECOND 25.
Christopher Marlowe Mathew R. Martin. sition in favour of his son , the Archbishop of Canterbury acknowledges the role of the people in these historic events by preaching a sermon on the theme of Vox populi , vox dei , the voice of the ...
... favour shall be great " ( 259-60 ) , Edward declares in scene six . For the barons , conversely , Edward's advancement of Gaveston and then the Spencers is an attack on their privileges and what they perceive to be their right to ...
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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 |