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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... stages companies of both semi-professional boy actors and professional adult actors performed regularly. The title page of Dido, Queen of Carthage, a play that Marlowe may have written while still at Cambridge, indicates that it was ...
... stage projected into the yard area from one of the inner walls and was roughly 30 feet by 40 feet. At the back of the stage was a house-front façade with (at least) two doors for entrances and exits and an upper balcony area that could ...
... stage also contained three different horizontal areas: if the main action of the play took place in the central area of the stage, a withdrawal to the back of the stage could suggest a retreat into privacy or secrecy and the advance ...
... stage is a complex space in the play, however. In scene two, for example, the entrances on the opposite sides of the stage are used to dramatize the barons' mounting opposition to Edward and Gaveston, as the Mortimers enter from one ...
... stage costuming signalled identity in a multiplicity of ways. In early modern England the clothes a person could wear—their fabric, colour, and style—were regulated by legislation. On the street or stage, then, a character's costume ...
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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 |