Edward the Second
- ISBN-10
- 1517347017
- ISBN-13
- 9781517347017
- Series
- Edward the Second
- Pages
- 80
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-09-14
- Publisher
- CreateSpace
- Author
- Christopher Marlowe
Description
Christopher Marlowe's Edward II is typically applauded as an aesthetic achievement, a history play that brings form and meaning to the incoherent material of its chronicle source by retelling the king's slightly dull, twenty-year reign as the fierce and deadly struggle of a few willful personalities. Within the development of Elizabethan drama, Edward II is granted a crucial role in bringing to the English "chronicle play"--including Shakespeare's Henry VI plays and Richard III--the unity and purpose of the mature "history" play.
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