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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... subject is the reign of a medieval English monarch. (An excerpt from one significant piece of classical literature to which the play alludes, the Diana-Actæon narrative in Ovid's Metamorphoses, can be found in Appendix C.) Marlowe may ...
... subject of gossip and moralizing. The account of Marlowe in Thomas Beard's The Theatre of God's Judgement (1597), included below in Appendix E4, fashions Marlowe's death into a negative moral example illustrating the divinely ordained ...
... subjects, like saints' plays, miracle plays, and morality plays; secular but often no less didac- tic dramas designed for performance in such locations as ban- queting halls, where they might serve as interludes between other forms of ...
... 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 Phaethon” (177), he says ...
... subjects . If the monarch is appointed by God , as medieval and early modern political theory generally held to be the case , then in what circumstances , by whom , and with what means can a monarch be legitimately resisted and even ...
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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 |