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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... followed by Margaret (1566), Joan (1569), Ann (1572), Dorothy (1573), and Thomas (1576). Although the family's circumstances were humble, life was not necessarily mis- erable for Christopher. As the oldest son and, when Mary died in ...
... followed Marlowe's historical sources ( see Appendix Al [ i ] ) in specifying in their stage directions that Edward is held down by his jailers and anally penetrated by the assassin Lightborn with the red - hot spit that he demanded be ...
... followed by two very successful kings: his father, an admired and feared crusader, soldier, and legal reformer, and his son, Edward III, who very nearly conquered France. Along with the crown, Edward inher- ited from his father several ...
... followed. For three years Isabella and Mortimer, created 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 ...
... followed in E2 by the eminent early modern English lawyer Edward Coke's commentary . In the years spanning Elizabeth I's and James I's reign , 1558- 1625 , however , there are only six recorded cases of sodomy charges , all of which ...
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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 |