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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... equivalent of the Latin 'Ds.' or 'Dominus,' was reserved for students who had fulfilled the requirements for the bachelor's degree” (57). 1 See Charles Nicholl's The Reckoning:The Murder of Christopher Marlowe EDWARD THE SECOND 11.
... Murder of Christopher Marlowe for an extended conspiracy theory account of Marlowe's death. Honan and Riggs are also sceptical of the official Elizabethan account of Marlowe's death. 1 See Thomas Dabbs's Reforming Marlowe:The Nineteenth ...
... murder , of course , is the play's major piece of symbolic action . The play contains no stage directions for Edward's murder , and the cues provided by the dialogue are somewhat ambiguous , but most modern editors of the play have ...
... murdered in September of the same year. 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 ...
... murder and his son's installation as Edward III quickly followed. For three years Isabella and Mortimer, created Earl of March in 1328, con- trolled government under Edward III's seal. In 1330, perhaps in response to rumours that ...
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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 |