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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... 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 by the students (Honan ...
... sexuality and class, the relation of 'the personal' and 'the political,' and the tendency of liberation struggles to reinscribe pre-existing power relations” (600). The play continues to be performed regularly by amateur and ...
... sexual and heterosexual , categories that divide sexuality into two opposed types that provide the basis for personal identity , are the inventions of nineteenth - century medical , legal , and moral dis- courses . In contrast , Smith ...
... sexual activity . More important was whether the relationship respected or transgressed social and political order . Mario DiGangi explains that " in the early modern period ' sodomy ' was neither a neutral description of a sexual act ...
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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 |