Edward the Second
- ISBN-10
- 1551119102
- ISBN-13
- 9781551119106
- Series
- Edward the Second
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-10-15
- Publisher
- Broadview Press
- Author
- Christopher Marlowe
Description
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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