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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... death. In 1314 he led a large army against the Scots only to see his poorly organized forces crushed at the battle of Bannockburn. Subsequent forays were inconclusive, and in 1323 Edward con- cluded a thirteen-year truce with the Scots ...
... death rather than after , as in historical fact and Holinshed . 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 ...
... death ( see also Stow's account in Appendix A2 [ b ] ) , Patrick Ryan has argued contrariwise that “ Marlowe invokes , as the widest frame of reference for witnessing this king's tragedy , the providential design of Anglican ...
... death " ( 41 ) . The reader can examine the text of the first Tudor sodomy law in Appendix E1 , followed in E2 by the eminent early modern English lawyer Edward Coke's commentary . In the years spanning Elizabeth I's and James I's reign ...
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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 |