Edward II - Revised Edition

Dramatically compressing the reign of Edward II and enlivening the historical narrative with humour, romance, and horrific violence, Marlowe interrogates how the transgression of accepted codes of behaviour affects even those at the highest level of society. Kept off the stage for almost three hundred years because of its dramatization of explicit homosexual relationships, it has become increasingly popular with modern day readers and performed on stage and film to great acclaim. This student edition contains a completely new introduction by Stephen Guy-Bray, and offers students a useful and lively overview of recent criticism, an updated performance history paying greater attention to Derek Jarman''s film, a background on the author and themes, as well as an updated bibliography and a fully annotated version of the playtext.>

List of contents

Introduction
A Note on the Text
Further Reading
Edward II

About the author

Christopher Marlowe was a playwright, poet, scholar, translator and alleged spy. His other works include: Dido Queen of Carthage, Tamburlaine Part 1, Tamburlaine Part 2, The Jew of Malta, Edward II and The Massacre at Paris. He was murdered at the age of 29, in a private dining house in Deptford in 1593.Stephen Guy Bray is Professer and Head of the Department of English at the University of British Columbia, Canada

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Marlowe, Marlowe Christopher, Martin Wiggins
• Assisted by: Stephen Guy-Bray (Reader / Narrator), Stephen Guy-Bray (Editor), Robert Lindsey (Editor), Lindsey Robert (Editor), Martin Wiggins (Editor), Wiggins Martin (Editor), Guy-Bray Stephen (Introduction)
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.07.2014
• EAN: 9781472520524
• ISBN: 978-1-4725-2052-4
• No. of pages: 168
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Methuen Drama; New Mermaids; New Mermaids
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Literary studies: plays and playwrights