by Christopher Marlowe · A & C Black Publishers Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780713629057
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«Edward the Second» is the play by Christopher Marlowe, published by A & C Black Publishers Ltd in paperback (108 pages, in English).
Edward the Second dramatizes the reign of King Edward II of England in the fourteenth century and the struggles his favorites unleash at court. Christopher Marlowe addresses the ambition, betrayal and homosexuality of the monarch as the nobility pressures his authority. The plot combines historical chronicle with personal tragedy.
Edition edited by W. Moelwyn Merchant, with critical introduction, bibliography and information on staging; belongs to the New Mermaids series and reprints the 1967 edition.
For students of English literature analyzing Elizabethan drama and for those interested in the political conflicts of the medieval English court.
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.
