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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... plays were likely first performed on a regular basis by adult companies in open - air playhouses . The open - air playhouses were large , wooden , polygonal struc- tures that could seat between two and three thousand spectators , who ...
... play took place in the central area of the stage, a withdrawal to the back of the stage could suggest a retreat into privacy or secrecy and the advance toward the front of the stage could be used by an actor to engage the audience ...
... play to the middle ground of human history represented by the main stage ... in order that he can intensify the brutal personal conflicts, the dismaying juxtapositions and confrontations, and the savage ironies that characterize for him ...
... play's staging . On the 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 ...
... play's major piece of symbolic action . The play contains no stage directions for Edward's murder , and the cues provided by the dialogue are somewhat ambiguous , but most modern editors of the play have followed Marlowe's historical ...
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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 |