Edward the Second
"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."--Page 4 of cover
Drama
250 p. : ill., port. ; 22 cm.
9781551119106, 1551119102
646566630
Appendix A. Marlowe's historical sources
1. From Raphael Holinshed, The third volume of Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1587)
2. From John Stow, The annals of England (1592)
Appendix B. From Michael Drayton, Mortimeriados (1596)
Appendix C. The Diana-Actæon Myth
1. From Arthur Golding, the XV books of P. Ovidius Naso (1567)
2. Sonnet V of Samuel Daniel's Sonnet sequence Delia (1592)
Appendix D. On friendship
1. Thomas Elyot, "The True description of amity or friendship" (1580)
2. From Francis Bacon, "Of friendship" (1625)
3. From Richard Barnfield, "The Tears of an affectionate shepherd sick for love or The Complaint of Daphnis for the love of Ganymede" (1594)
Appendix E. Sodomy
1. "An act for the punishment of the Vice of Buggerie" (1587)
2. Edward Coke, "Of buggery, or sodomy" (1644)
3. From Philip Stubbes, The Anatomy of abuses (1583)
4. From Thomas Beard, The Theatre of God's judgements (1597)
Appendix F. Kings and tyrants
1. From an homily against disobedience and wilful rebellion (1570)
2. From Hugh Languet, Vindiciae contra Tyrannos : a defence of liberty against tyrants (1648)
3. From James I of England and VI of Scotland, The True law of free monarchies. (1603)
" ... modernized and fully annotated ... prefaced by a critical but student-oriented introduction, and followed by ... extended selections from Marlowe's historical sources, texts bearing on the play's complex sexual and political dynamics, and excerpts from the contemporary poet Michael Drayton's epic rendition of Edward the Second's reign"--Cover p. [4]