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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... performances by troupes of travelling actors. As Park Honan, one of Marlowe's most recent biographers, puts it, “The city itself was like a gigan- tic theatre, always changing—if not prosperous, then full of opportunities and spectacles ...
... performance of The Jew of Malta in the 1630s,Thomas Heywood calls Marlowe “the best of poets in that age” (2). By the middle of the seventeenth century Marlowe had dropped into obscurity as a poet and playwright, but in the nineteenth ...
... performance in such locations as ban- queting halls, where they might serve as interludes between other forms of ... performance venue, where they could mount a regular performance schedule (six days a week) and generate stable revenue ...
... performance in a hall in Leicester ( Forker 14 ) , but all of Marlowe's other plays were likely first performed on a ... performances typically began mid - afternoon , while there was still daylight . The raised stage projected into the ...
... performances took place in natural light, and consequently in the drama written for this stage the scene is set and detailed mainly through the ref- erences and descriptions in the actors' lines (Gurr 187-200). Nonetheless, with its ...
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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 |