Name: Edward II par Christopher Marlowe
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Edward II Résumé

Edward II Christopher Marlowe

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.

Edward II Avis

This is a first-rate edition of an increasingly important play. Mathew Martins editing of the quarto text of Edward the Second is detailed and thoughtful, with copious, insightful annotations, and his critical introduction lucidly explores the plays theatrical contexts, historiographical concerns, and thematic imperatives. The extensive appendices that conclude the volume are invaluable for understanding the larger historical, political, and sexual contexts of the work. All in all, this is an edition that will greatly benefit both the student reader and the experienced scholar. Ian Munro, University of California, Irvine

Mathew Martins new edition of Edward the Second will serve well the needs of students. The introduction contains a succinct and helpful summary of the pertinent aspects of Marlowes life and of the practical concerns of the Elizabethan stage, details the reign of the historical Edward II, and considers early modern and postmodern evaluations of sodomitical relationships. Appendices offer important cultural contexts, including passages from Marlowes historical sources in Holinshed and Stow, Michael Draytons very different poetic account of Edwards reign, a selection of early modern versions of the tradition of amity (or friendship between men), and Renaissance legal and moral descriptions of sodomy. Ian McAdam, University of Lethbridge

À propos de Christopher Marlowe

Mathew R. Martin is Full Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Brock University.

Sommaire

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Christopher Marlowe: A Brief Chronology of His Life and Times
A Note on the Text

Edward the Second

Appendix A: Marlowes Historical Sources

From Raphael Holinshed, The Third Volume of Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1587)
From John Stow, The Annals of England (1592)

Appendix B: From Michael Drayton, Mortimeriados (1596)

Appendix C: The Diana-Acton Myth

From Arthur Golding, The XV Books of P. Ovidius Naso (1567)
Sonnet V of Samuel Daniels Sonnet Sequence Delia (1592)

Appendix D: On Friendship

Thomas Elyot, The True Description of Amity or Friendship (1580)
From Francis Bacon, Of Friendship (1625)
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

An Act for the Punishment of the Vice of Buggerie (1587)
Edward Coke, Of Buggery, or Sodomy (1644)
From Philip Stubbes, The Anatomy of Abuses (1583)
From Thomas Beard, The Theatre of Gods Judgements (1597)

Appendix F: Kings and Tyrants

From An Homily against Disobedience and Wilful Rebellion (1570)
From Hugh Languet, Vindiciae contra Tyrannos: A Defence of Liberty against Tyrants (1648)
From James I of England and VI of Scotland, The True Law of Free Monarchies (1603)

Works Cited and Further Reading

Informations supplémentaires

Sku

GOR007466895

ISBN 13

9781551119106

ISBN 10

1551119102

Titre

Edward II Christopher Marlowe

Auteur

Christopher Marlowe

Série

Broadview Editions

État

Occasion - Très bon état

Relié

Broché

Éditeur

Broadview Press Ltd

Année de publication

2010-10-30

Nombre de pages

256

Prix

N/A

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