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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Edward Coke, “Of Buggery, or Sodomy” (1644) • 220 3. From Philip Stubbes, The Anatomy of Abuses (1583) • 223 4. From Thomas Beard, The Theatre of God's Judgements (1597) • 226 Appendix F: Kings and Tyrants • 229 1.
Having completed his final two years of grammar-school education on a scholarship at 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 ...
Historian Michael Prestwich comments that “Edward II was one of the most unsuccessful kings ever to rule England” (79), and he had the double misfortune to be preceded and followed by two very successful kings: his father, ...
Edward I reissued the Magna Carta in 1297, and Edward II was compelled early on in his reign, in 1310, to agree to a set of Ordinances that reaffirmed the Magna Carta and gave the barons the right to appoint the king's advisors.
Edward established the latter as Scottish king, in the process asserting English overlordship over Scotland. The Scottish rebelled and continued to do so throughout Edward II's reign, regularly conducting extended and extremely ...
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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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