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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... scene paintings or special lighting effects: the façade remained largely the same throughout the play, the performances took place in natural light, and consequently in the drama written for this stage the scene is set and detailed ...
... scene twelve, entrances from opposite sides of the stage are used to dramatize conflict, as Edward's army enters from one side of the stage, to be confronted shortly by the entrance of the baronial forces from the other side.The scene's ...
... scene one , Edward seating Gaveston on the throne beside him in scene four , and Edward's kneeling in scene eleven to swear revenge upon the barons for Gaveston's death are simple examples of symbolic action . More extended examples ...
... scene . Some critics have detected in the scene's symbolism a moralization of the manner of Edward's death : Edward's anal execution is the fitting punishment , they suggest , for a monarch whose homosexual desires led him to neglect ...
... scene of Edward's murder and the play's final scene , in which Edward III com- mands Mortimer Junior's execution , yet historically three years intervene between these moments , and Mortimer Junior's arrest and execution proceed very ...
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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 |