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ISBN: 9780713629057
Edward the Second es una obra de teatro escrita por Christopher Marlowe, que narra la vida y el reinado del rey Eduardo II de Inglaterra. La obra explora temas como el poder, la ambición, la traición y la homosexualidad en la corte real. Esta edición de New Mermaid Anthology incluye un análisis del primer cuarto y una reconsideración de la relación de la obra con las historias de Shakespeare. Charles R. Forker analiza el uso de las fuentes por parte de Marlowe y presenta un nuevo argumento para la estructura de cinco actos del drama. También profundiza en las opiniones conflictivas y controvertidas sobre el género y la política sexual de la obra, e incluye un registro completo de la historia escénica.
Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe, was an English playwright, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe is among the most famous of the Elizabethan playwrights. Based upon the "many imitations" of his play Tamburlaine, modern scholars consider him to have been the foremost dramatist in London in the years just before his mysterious early death. Some scholars also believe that he greatly influenced William Shakespeare, who was baptised in the same year as Marlowe and later succeeded him as the preeminent Elizabethan playwright. Marlowe was the first to achieve critical reputation for his use of blank verse, which became the standard for the era. His plays are distinguished by their overreaching protagonists. Themes found within Marlowe's literary works have been noted as humanistic with realistic emotions, which some scholars find difficult to reconcile with Marlowe's "anti-intellectualism" and his catering to the prurient tastes of his Elizabethan audiences for generous displays of extreme physical violence, cruelty, and bloodshed.
