Christopher Marlowe

Edward II (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Edward II" is one of the earliest English history plays. It focuses on the relationship between King Edward II of England and Piers Gaveston and Edward's murder on the orders of Roger Mortimer. Marlowe portrays the king's downfall as a result of his love for his dearests, Gaveston and Spencer, his negligence of his queen and earls, and the rise of Queen Isabella and her lover Mortimer. The play explores the tragic tensions between sexual passion and marriage, royal duty and self-fulfillment, and noble privilege and ambition.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: e-artnow
• Seitenzahl: 64
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 4066339568099
• Artikelnr.: 69547801

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey Masten is Professor of English and Gender & Sexuality Studies at Northwestern University, Chicago, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
General Editors' Preface
Introduction
- Edward II and the History of Homosexuality
- Christopher Marlowe's Life, Education, and Writing
- Transformations of Genre: Tragedy, History, and 'Sources'
- Kingship and Friendship: The Play's Two Bodies
- The Place of the Queen
- Edward's Earliest Readers: From Commonplacing to Richard II
- Performances and Reinventions
- The Texts of Edward II
- Q1: Its Text and Printing
- This Edition's Approach
- Quarto Paratexts
EDWARD II
Appendix 1: Reading a Page of Q1 (1594)
Appendix 2: Act and Scene Divisions in Edward II
Abbreviations and References
- Abbreviations Used in Notes
- Short Titles for Works by Marlowe
- Works by and Partly by Shakespeare
- Abbreviations for Journals
- Editions of Edward II Collated
- Quarto Copies of Edward II Cited
- Modern Productions and Adaptations of Edward II Discussed
- Other Works Cited
Index