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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... Gaveston's banishment and the amount of time between the play's final two scenes are good examples of dramatic compres- sion . As Holinshed records , Gaveston was banished several times from England before his death in 1312 , but for ...
... Gaveston " ( 4.72-73 ) , he is desperately seeking to separate the political from the personal or private . Edward's retreat with Gaveston into the castle at Tynemouth and his flight to the abbey at Neath with the Spencers can be seen ...
... Gaveston next to him after ascending to his throne and tells the audience of incensed barons that " Were he [ Gaveston ] a peasant , being my minion , / I'll make the proudest of you stoop to him " ( 4.29-30 ) . Edward's relationships ...
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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 |