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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... forces to which they are opposed . From Tamburlaine to Edward the Second , however , the balance of power seems to shift further against the transgressive tragic protagonist : Tamburlaine is a conqueror , Edward a vacillating , weak ...
... forces from the other side.The scene's dialogue echoes the head-to-head col- lision of these two forces, concluding with the clash of identically phrased but opposite claims to political legitimacy. “Saint George for England and the ...
... forces led by his disaffected queen , Isabella , and Mor- timer . The Despensers's rapacity and consequent unpopularity contributed in no small measure to the ease with which Edward was defeated . Edward's 1322 triumph proved to have ...
... forces crushed at the battle of Bannockburn. Subsequent forays were inconclusive, and in 1323 Edward con- cluded a thirteen-year truce with the Scots that merely deferred the issue of English sovereignty over Scotland.The truce was fol ...
... forces " ( 283 ) . In Holinshed , for example , the common people play a role in the major events of Edward's reign . As Isabella's army advances on London in 1326 , London's artisans revolt against the authorities established by Edward ...
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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 |