Edward the SecondDepicting 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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Richard appears on the walls—the upper level of the façade—to speak with Bolingbroke. If the initial positions of the two characters emphasize the proper hierarchical relationship between subject and sovereign, however, their positions ...
Although their effect becomes clear once the two rejoin the other barons, the words Isabella speaks to Mortimer Junior in that private space remain unknown. How did Isabella persuade the man with whom she will later have an affair to ...
Although the mayor and citizens of Bristol hand Spencer Senior over to Isabella's forces, the mayor does not have a speaking part. Similarly, the parliamentary representative, Trussel, speaks little in scene twenty, in which Edward ...
U této knihy jste dosáhli svého limitního počtu zobrazení..
U této knihy jste dosáhli svého limitního počtu zobrazení..
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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 |