Edward II Revised / Edition 3

by Christopher Marlowe, Stephen Guy-Bray, Martin Wiggins, Robert Lindsey

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472520524
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	09/25/2014
Series:	New Mermaids
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	168
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.60(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Stephen Guy-Bray is Professor and Head of the Department of English at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

Martin Wiggins is a Fellow of The Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction
A Note on the Text
Further Reading
Edward II