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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... King's School in Canterbury, in 1580 Marlowe won a scholarship to pursue university studies at Cambridge, where he completed his BA in 1584 and his MA in 1587. Marlowe's university education extended his immersion in the classics, 10 ...
... kings: his father, an admired and feared crusader, soldier, and legal reformer, and his son, Edward III, who very ... King John to sign the Great Charter or Magna Carta, a bill of baronial rights to property, due legal process , and ...
... king's advisors . This latter part of the Ordinances was clearly directed against Edward's favourite , Piers ... king and executed him in June 1312. The con- flict between the king and the barons continued until 1321 , when it broke into ...
... king, in the process asserting English overlordship over Scotland. The Scot- tish rebelled and continued to do so throughout Edward II's reign, regularly conducting extended and extremely destructive raids into northern England. Edward ...
... king's hall that stood without the walls , gave forth that he was son and right heir of king Edward the first , and that by means of a false nurse he was stolen out of his cradle , and this Edward the second being a carter's son was ...
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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 |