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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Christopher Marlowe Mathew R. Martin. Acknowledgements I would like to thank Brock University's Humanities Research Institute for a grant that enabled ... Marlowe's Life Christopher Marlowe was born on 23 EDWARD THE SECOND 7 Acknowledgements.
Christopher Marlowe Mathew R. Martin. Introduction. Christopher Marlowe's Life Christopher Marlowe was born on 23 February 1564 in Canter- bury, a city of roughly 5,000 inhabitants approximately 55 miles southeast of London, in Kent. He ...
... Marlowe's most recent biographers, puts it, “The city itself was like a gigan- tic theatre, always changing—if not prosperous, then full of opportunities and spectacles for a sharp-eyed viewer” (30). Marlowe would not remain in ...
Christopher Marlowe Mathew R. Martin. 1587. Marlowe's university education extended his immersion in the classics, as well as providing him a solid background in rhet- oric, philosophy, and theology.1 His course of studies would also ...
Christopher Marlowe Mathew R. Martin. rates , London had expanded from approximately 50,000 inhabi- tants at the beginning of the century to around 200,000 by the time Marlowe arrived to join a growing group of university grad- uates who ...
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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 |