Overview

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.

ISBN-13

9781551119106

ISBN-10

1551119102

Weight

0.66 Pounds

Dimensions

5.50 x 0.52 x 8.50 In

List Price

$21.95

Edition

1st Edition

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

256 pages

Publisher

Broadview Press

Published On

2010-10-30



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