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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... relationship between subject and sovereign, however, their posi- tions at the end of the scene foreground the destruction of that relationship. Richard is forced to descend to Bolingbroke's level: “Down, down I come like glist'ring ...
... relationship between public and private spaces in the play. In scene four, for example, Isabella draws Mortimer Junior apart from the rest of the barons in order to persuade him to consent to Gaveston's recall from banishment. By ...
... relationship between Edward and Gaveston as explicitly homosexual , and in the murder scene Lightborn kissed and embraced Edward before killing him . The Royal Shakespeare Company's 1990 production took the homoerotic dimension even ...
... relationship between the two countries. Edward II reigned for approximately twenty years. He abdicated in January 1327 and was murdered in September of the same year. Historian Michael Prestwich comments that “Edward II was one of the ...
... relationships he has established with his male favourites . " [ W ] e'll live in Tynemouth here , " Edward asserts after retreating into Tynemouth castle , “ And so I walk with him [ Gaveston ] about the walls , / What care I though the ...
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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 |