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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... males a chance to rise in the world. Most boys, even those from humble backgrounds, had the opportunity to acquire a rudimentary schooling. At six or seven, Marlowe would have entered “petty school” to learn his alphabet and the ...
... male , and female roles were played by the male youths of the company . Gaveston glances at the titillating poten- tial of gender transvestism on the stage when he imagines enter- taining Edward with a performance of the Diana - Acteon ...
... Male Friendship and Sodomy When Edward offers England to his barons in exchange for " some nook or corner ” in which he can " frolic with my dearest Gaveston " ( 4.72-73 ) , he is desperately seeking to separate the political from the ...
... male favourites of rela- tively humble origins are as political as they are personal and provide the focal point for the conflict between the king and the barons over ... male - male anal penetration and which took its EDWARD THE SECOND 27.
Christopher Marlowe Mathew R. Martin. to male - male anal penetration and which took its name from the biblical city of Sodom destroyed by God because , in St. Paul's words , " the men left the natural use of the woman , and burned in ...
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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 |