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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... early modern English 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 ...
... modern editors of the play have followed Marlowe's historical sources ( see ... earlier in the scene . Some critics have detected in the scene's symbolism a ... early twentieth - century produc- tions , Poel's production de - emphasized ...
... 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 removed ? This question is on the barons ' minds throughout Edward ...
... early modern configuration . Bruce R. Smith observes that " No one in Shakespeare's day would have labelled himself a ' homosexual " " ( 11 ) . Following the work of French theorist Michel Foucault , Smith emphasizes that the categories ...
... early modern English lawyer Edward Coke's commentary . In the years spanning Elizabeth I's and James I's reign , 1558- 1625 , however , there are only six recorded cases of sodomy charges , all of which seem to have involved the anal ...
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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 |