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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... 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 , a character's ...
... 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 sources ( see Appendix Al [ i ] ) in specifying in their stage ...
... stage history until the 1990s, see Forker 99-116. For a detailed examination of the relationship between modern criticism and performance, including an examination of David Bintley's 1995 ballet version of the play and the 2003 Globe ...
... stage . Obviously , dramatic necessity compelled Marlowe to select from , rearrange , and compress the events recounted in his historical sources . For example , Holinshed relates that in 1318 a naughty fellow called John Poindras , or ...
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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 |