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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... remained unpublished , Walsingham's views could have come to Marlowe's attention either through his employment as a govern- ment agent or through his association with the Secretary's cousin , Sir Thomas Walsingham . Marlowe's interest ...
... remained unpublished , Walsingham's views could have come to Marlowe's attention either through his employment as a govern- ment agent or through his association with the Secretary's cousin , Sir Thomas Walsingham . Marlowe's interest ...
Page 141
... remained about a moneths space at Hereford , and in the meane while sent the lord Henrie erle of Leicester , and the lord William la Zouch , and one Rice ap Howell , that was latelie deliuered out of the tower where he was prisoner ...
... remained about a moneths space at Hereford , and in the meane while sent the lord Henrie erle of Leicester , and the lord William la Zouch , and one Rice ap Howell , that was latelie deliuered out of the tower where he was prisoner ...
Page 142
... remained at Hereford in safe keeping till Candlemasse next , and then the bishop being at London , appointed him to be brought vp , where not without the bishops consent ( as was thought ) he was taken out of his house by violence , and ...
... remained at Hereford in safe keeping till Candlemasse next , and then the bishop being at London , appointed him to be brought vp , where not without the bishops consent ( as was thought ) he was taken out of his house by violence , and ...
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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