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. |
Vyhledávání v knize
Výsledky 6-10 z 24
... political world is constituted and determined by private forces " ( 283 ) . In Holinshed , for example , the common people play a role in the major events of Edward's reign . As Isabella's army advances on London in 1326 , London's ...
... 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 as similar attempts to carve out a private space away from the political ...
... political as they are personal and provide the focal point for the conflict between the king and the barons over the limits of royal authority and the extent of baro- nial rights . For Edward , Gaveston's rapid social rise from son of a ...
... political order . Mario DiGangi explains that " in the early modern period ' sodomy ' was neither a neutral description of a sexual act nor a synonym for homoerotic relations generally, but a political cate- gory 28 INTRODUCTION.
U této knihy jste dosáhli svého limitního počtu zobrazení..
Obsah
7 | |
9 | |
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 |