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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... monarch. (An excerpt from one significant piece of classical literature to which the play alludes, the Diana-Actæon narrative in Ovid's Metamorphoses, can be found in Appendix C.) Marlowe may also have acquired his first acting ...
... monarch ; Tamburlaine's field of action is the world , while Edward ends the play and his life in a dungeon ; if Tamburlaine is characterized by hyperbolic language , Edward the Second employs a more restrained , ironic rhetoric ...
... monarch during such festive seasons as Christmas; educational drama, performed by schoolboys of all ages. Not all of this drama was amateur.Travelling actors performed interludes and other fare in expectation of some recompense for ...
... monarch, features an analo- gous moment in which the vertical spatial relations between char- acters are highly significant. In act three, scene three of the play, the army of the rebellious Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of Lan- caster ...
... monarch whose homosexual desires led him to neglect his kingdom . The symbolism is more ambiguous than this , however . After all , the character who administers the pun- ishment is the assassin Lightborn , whose name is an ...
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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 |