Publication

2010 - Broadview Press

Language

English

Word Count

64,000 words, Guess

Page Count

256 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781551119106
  • ISBN-101551119102
  • OCLC Control Number646566630
  • OCLC Control Number607973722
  • Better World Books9781551119106
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCPR2665.A2 M38 2010

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."--Page 4 of cover.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Edward the SecondBroadview Press2010-01-01

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