基本説明
This edition provides context for the play's historical sources and the history of its theatrical production, as well as its complex discussion of sexual politics and kingship.
Full 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.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Christopher Marlowe: A Brief Chronology of His Life and Times
A Note on the Text
Edward the Second
Appendix A: Marlowe's 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-Actæon Myth
From Arthur Golding, The XV Books of P. Ovidius Naso (1567)
Sonnet V of Samuel Daniel's 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 God's 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
