Edward II
New Mermaids
(Sprache: Englisch)
This is a modern-spelling, fully-annotated edition of Christopher
Marlowe's play Edward the Second". It is part of the New Mermaids
series and includes a critical introduction, biography of the author,
discussions of sources, textual details, and...
Marlowe's play Edward the Second". It is part of the New Mermaids
series and includes a critical introduction, biography of the author,
discussions of sources, textual details, and...
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This is a modern-spelling, fully-annotated edition of Christopher
Marlowe's play Edward the Second". It is part of the New Mermaids
series and includes a critical introduction, biography of the author,
discussions of sources, textual details, and information about the
staging of the play."This is a modern-spelling, fully-annotated edition of Christopher
Marlowe's play Edward the Second". It is part of the New Mermaids
series and includes a critical introduction, biography of the author,
discussions of sources, textual details, and information about the
staging of the play."
Marlowe's play Edward the Second". It is part of the New Mermaids
series and includes a critical introduction, biography of the author,
discussions of sources, textual details, and information about the
staging of the play."This is a modern-spelling, fully-annotated edition of Christopher
Marlowe's play Edward the Second". It is part of the New Mermaids
series and includes a critical introduction, biography of the author,
discussions of sources, textual details, and information about the
staging of the play."
Klappentext zu „Edward II “
Marlowe's play retains its power to shock even today, and this editiongives full value to its three overriding themes of sexual favouritism,
political confrontation and sheer cruelty. Critics in the last twenty
years, who have focused on the overtly sexual relationship between
Edward and his favourite Gaveston, have hailed it as a 'gay classic';
earlier interpretations concentrated rather on the deposition by his
subjects of a weak king, reading it in tandem with Shakespeare's Richard II . The introduction shows how the play works to give the
audience an equal emotional commitment to opposing points of view and
concludes that this is what makes Edward II such an uncomfortable and
challenging play.
Autoren-Porträt von Christopher Marlowe
Marlowe, ChristopherChristopher Marlowe (1564-93) was an English playwright and poet, who through his establishment of blank verse as a medium for drama did much to free the Elizabethan theatre from the constraints of the medieval and Tudor dramatic tradition. His first play Tamburlaine the Great, was performed that same year, probably by the Admiral's Men with Edward Alleyn in the lead. With its swaggering power-hungry title character and gorgeous verse the play proved to be enormously popular; Marlowe quickly wrote a second part, which may have been produced later that year. Marlowe's most famous play, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, based on the medieval German legend of the scholar who sold his soul to the devil, was probably written and produced by 1590, although it was not published until 1604. Historically the play is important for utilizing the soliloquy as an aid to character analysis and development. The Jew of Malta (c. 1590) has another unscrupulous aspiring character at its centre in the Machiavellian Barabas. Edward II (c. 1592), which may have influenced Shakespeare's Richard II, was highly innovatory in its treatment of a historical character and formed an important break with the more simplistic chronicle plays that had preceded it. Marlowe also wrote two lesser plays, Dido, Queen of Carthage (date unknown) and The Massacre at Paris (1593), based on contemporary events in France. Marlowe was killed in a London tavern in May 1593. Although Marlowe's writing career lasted for only six years, his four major plays make him easily the most important predecessor of Shakespeare.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Christopher Marlowe
- 2005, 2nd ed., 176 Seiten, mit Abbildungen, Maße: 12,8 x 19,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Herausgegeben von Wiggins, Martin; Lindsey, Robert
- Herausgegeben: Robert Lindsey
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Specialist
- ISBN-10: 0713666692
- ISBN-13: 9780713666694
Sprache:
Englisch
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