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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... reign of a medieval English 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 ...
... reign , in 1310 , to agree to a set of Ordinances that reaffirmed the Magna Carta and gave the barons the right to ... reign has been taken from Michael Prestwich's The Three Edwards : War and State in England 1272-1377 and Roy Martin ...
... reign was also marked by conflict with Scotland and France. The conflict with Scotland began in the previous reign, when Edward I intervened in the 1290s in the dispute between two rival claimants to the Scottish throne, Robert Bruce ...
... reign considerably as he trans- ferred it from the history books to the public stage . Obviously , dramatic necessity compelled Marlowe to select from , rearrange , and compress the events recounted in his historical sources . For ...
... reign , converting them into ( mostly neg- ative ) moral examples that illustrate the destructiveness of various vices , especially in kings , and the fickleness of fortune . For Holinshed history has a moral order . That moral order is ...
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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 |