Edward the Second

ISBN-13: 9781551119106 / Miękka / 2010 / 256 str.

Christopher Marlowe

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Tells the story of the Edward II's reign, fall, and gruesome murder. Marlowe's dramatization focuses on the relationship between Edward and Piers Gaveston, and indirectly engages the convoluted politics of Marlowe's time as well as of the recent past. It is an important cultural, as well as dramatic, document from the early modern period for its treatment of sexuality and class. 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.

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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

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

Appendix B: From Michael Drayton, Mortimeriados (1596)

Appendix C: The Diana-Actæon Myth

1. From Arthur Golding, The XV Books of P. Ovidius Naso (1567)
2. Sonnet V of Samuel Daniel’s Sonnet Sequence Delia (1592)

Appendix D: On Friendship

1. Thomas Elyot, “The True Description of Amity or Friendship” (1580)
2. From Francis Bacon, “Of Friendship” (1625)
3. 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

1. “An Act for the Punishment of the Vice of Buggerie” (1587)
2. Edward Coke, “Of Buggery, or Sodomy” (1644)
3. From Philip Stubbes, The Anatomy of Abuses (1583)
4. From Thomas Beard, The Theatre of God’s Judgements (1597)

Appendix F: Kings and Tyrants

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

Works Cited and Further Reading