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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... political, social, and sexual issues on which Edward and his barons are divided. At Christmas, some of Cambridge's colleges offered other role-playing opportunities for their students in the form of school plays acted and often written ...
... political process” (276). The middle ground of the main stage is a complex space in the play, however. In scene two, for example, the entrances on the opposite sides of the stage are used to dramatize the barons' mounting opposition to ...
... political desires are being realized in the scene . Indeed , Edward's dying words , which echo Christ's , posi- tion him as a martyr as much as a criminal . Edward the Second was probably first performed in London in 1592-93 by a group ...
... political,' and the tendency of liberation struggles to reinscribe pre-existing power relations” (600). The play continues to be performed regularly by amateur and professional companies in North America and Britain, the most recent ...
... political questions that were as pressing for Elizabethans as they were for Edward's rebellious subjects . If the monarch is appointed by God , as medieval and early modern political theory generally held to be the case , then in what ...
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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 |