The Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe: Volume III: Edward IIMarlowe's highly controversial Edward II concerns the conflicting claims of love and politics, the urgency of homoerotic desire, and the cruelty with which unscrupulous authority can exert control. The boldness with which the work confronts these issues makes it unique in the period, yet this is the first critical edition of the play with full scholarly apparatus for twenty-five years. Richard Rowland's edition presents an old-spelling text which adheres more closely to the first quarto of 1594 than any edition hitherto. The present volume is the third in the Oxford English Texts Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe. A full commentary and introduction contextualize the play and give an entirely original account of the relationship betweeen the play, Marlowe's own age, and events which immediately followed it. By re-examining textual cruces, new interpretative possibilities are opened up, and the play is related to the language and ideas of Marlowe's contemporaries. A generous selection from Holinshed, Marlowe's principal source, is also included. As critics and historians continue to debate attitudes to love, sexuality, and politics during the English Renaissance, this edition of Edward II extends that debate, offering a new understanding of the eroticism and violence of the play. |
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... nere returne into the realme : And know my lord , ere I will breake my oath , This sword of mine that should offend your foes , Shall sleepe within the scabberd at thy neede , And underneath thy banners march who will , For Mortimer ...
... nere returne into the realme : And know my lord , ere I will breake my oath , This sword of mine that should offend your foes , Shall sleepe within the scabberd at thy neede , And underneath thy banners march who will , For Mortimer ...
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... nere love me . LANCASTER . Feare ye not Madam , now his minions gone , His wanton humor will be quicklie left . P QUEEN . O never Lancaster ! I am injoynde , To sue unto you all for his repeale : 200 This wils my lord , and this must I ...
... nere love me . LANCASTER . Feare ye not Madam , now his minions gone , His wanton humor will be quicklie left . P QUEEN . O never Lancaster ! I am injoynde , To sue unto you all for his repeale : 200 This wils my lord , and this must I ...
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... nere forsake his flatterers . 60 SIR JOHN . My Lords of England , sith the ungentle king Of Fraunce refuseth to give aide of armes , To this distressed Queene his sister heere , Go you with her to Henolt , doubt yee not , We will finde ...
... nere forsake his flatterers . 60 SIR JOHN . My Lords of England , sith the ungentle king Of Fraunce refuseth to give aide of armes , To this distressed Queene his sister heere , Go you with her to Henolt , doubt yee not , We will finde ...
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Admiral's Men armes ARUNDEL BALDOCK barons Bartley BISHOP bishop of Hereford bloud brother castell Christopher Marlowe chroniclers commaund court crowne death diuerse earle of Cornewall earle of Kent earle of Lancaster edition Edmund Edward II Elizabethan England English Enter euill Exeunt Exit F. S. Boas farewell farre fauour feare Fraunce friends Gaveston Glocester grace greefe hand hart hath haue head heaven heere Henolt Henry Hereford hir sonne Holinshed Holinshed's honor Iohn Isabell Isabella Killingworth king Edward land Leicester Levune LIGHTBORN line in Qq London lord Mortimer Madam majestie meane MORTIMER SENIOR Mortimer's murther nobilitie noble note to Sc Oxford parlement peeres PEMBROKE Penbrooke prince quarto QUEEN quéene realme receiued reign royal Scene 18 seaze sexual shalbe SIR JOHN souldiers soveraigne stay Stow sweete sword Tamburlaine thee Thomas thou traitor unckle unto vnto vpon W. W. Greg warres WARWICK weele whome Winchester word