Edward II Marlowe Plays Christopher Marlowe 9781544939315 Books
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Edward II. Marlowe's Plays By Christopher Marlowe
Edward II Marlowe Plays Christopher Marlowe 9781544939315 Books
The book discussion group met at the LGBT Center in April 2012 to discuss "Edward II."We had a nice sized group (I was worried that Elizabethan blank-verse drama might be off-putting) who had lots of interesting things to say about the play. A number of the attendees had seen live performances of it, the 1969 film version of it with a young Ian McKellen, or the loosely but emotionally true Derek Jarman film version. But we mostly talked about the text. While Marlowe was a contemporary of Shakespeare, this seems much skimpier, rather poorer, less detailed play than the Shakespeare plays. The motivations are less clearly laid out and the scenes themselves seem sketchy. Edward loves the common-born Gaveston, which we all agreed is very gay, even if it was written in 1593. Gaveston is largely seen as an opportunist. Gaveston is banished and then returned to England so that he can be murdered. After Gaveston is murdered, Edward makes a number of bad choices. Edward's brother, Kent, moves from supporting the King to disapproving him.
The major characters consist of two pairs of fathers and sons, and one uncle and nephew: Edward II and his son Prince Edward, the elder and younger Mortimer who work to dispose of Edward, and the elder and younger Spencer (who also makes a play for Edward while the Mortimers are fighting the king). A number of unclear battles clutter the second half of the drama. Eventually, Edward is imprisoned by his wife's new suitor. After Edward is murdered (with a red hot poker - so as to leave no visible marks on the body and to make the punishment fit the "crime" of loving Gaveston ), his son takes the throne and begins a very authoritative reign. We agreed that Edward's problem isn't that he's gay, but that he's a weak ruler who doesn't pay attention to the nobles around him.
We also agreed that Shakespeare must have gotten the idea of Richard II, another weak and possibly gay ruler, from this play and made a much richer drama from it. But, unlike much of Shakespeare's iambic pentameter and rhymes, we found the blank verse to be easier to read and rather compelling in telling the story. Some of the language and images are very striking and beautiful.
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Edward II Marlowe Plays Christopher Marlowe 9781544939315 Books Reviews
Shakespeare has given the world a magnificent set of plausible villains - Iago, Richard III, Lady MacBeth, for instance - as well as a more complex set of morally flawed heroes - Othello, Lear, Coriolanus, Henry V, Hamlet. No one, however, has delivered a judgment of immorality against Shakespeare merely on the premise that to understand a rogue, he must have been one. Perhaps it helps that almost nothing of Shakespeare's personal behavior, virtuous or vicious, has been reported.
Christopher Marlowe was a tempestuous, unstable fellow - a spy and a brawler, who was eventually killed in a tavern brawl. Too little is known, really, to brand him as a rogue, but the signs are clear. In the play Edward II, his best and his closest to Shakespeare in dramatic impact, Marlowe has given us a cast all of whom are morally compromised if not purely evil. Hey, the bad guys whack the bad guys and the audience loves it! Sounds like cable TV! Marlowe understood violence and cruelty at least as well as Shakespeare, and we have no reason to suppose that it wasn't first-hand knowledge. Of Shakespeare's peers, only John Webster had as profound an understanding of "wickedness."
Hollywood, heads up! A film about Marlowe in the process of writing and rehearsing Edward II would be a smash! I'm available to write the screen play.
Meanwhile, readers, if your only experience of Marlowe was Doctor Faustus in high school, I think you'll be surprised at the intensity and word-craft of Edward II.
The book discussion group met at the LGBT Center in April 2012 to discuss "Edward II."
We had a nice sized group (I was worried that Elizabethan blank-verse drama might be off-putting) who had lots of interesting things to say about the play. A number of the attendees had seen live performances of it, the 1969 film version of it with a young Ian McKellen, or the loosely but emotionally true Derek Jarman film version. But we mostly talked about the text. While Marlowe was a contemporary of Shakespeare, this seems much skimpier, rather poorer, less detailed play than the Shakespeare plays. The motivations are less clearly laid out and the scenes themselves seem sketchy. Edward loves the common-born Gaveston, which we all agreed is very gay, even if it was written in 1593. Gaveston is largely seen as an opportunist. Gaveston is banished and then returned to England so that he can be murdered. After Gaveston is murdered, Edward makes a number of bad choices. Edward's brother, Kent, moves from supporting the King to disapproving him.
The major characters consist of two pairs of fathers and sons, and one uncle and nephew Edward II and his son Prince Edward, the elder and younger Mortimer who work to dispose of Edward, and the elder and younger Spencer (who also makes a play for Edward while the Mortimers are fighting the king). A number of unclear battles clutter the second half of the drama. Eventually, Edward is imprisoned by his wife's new suitor. After Edward is murdered (with a red hot poker - so as to leave no visible marks on the body and to make the punishment fit the "crime" of loving Gaveston ), his son takes the throne and begins a very authoritative reign. We agreed that Edward's problem isn't that he's gay, but that he's a weak ruler who doesn't pay attention to the nobles around him.
We also agreed that Shakespeare must have gotten the idea of Richard II, another weak and possibly gay ruler, from this play and made a much richer drama from it. But, unlike much of Shakespeare's iambic pentameter and rhymes, we found the blank verse to be easier to read and rather compelling in telling the story. Some of the language and images are very striking and beautiful.
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