THE COMPLETE WORKS OF CHRISTOPHER MARLOW Richard Rowland

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Volume III: Edward II
Edited by Richard Rowland
CLARENDON PRESS OXFORD

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Marlowe's highly controversial Edward II concerns the conflicting claims of love and politics, the urgency of homoerotic desire, and the cruelty with which unscrupulous authority can exert control. The boldness with which the work confronts these issues makes it unique in the period, yet this is the first critical edition of the play with full scholarly apparatus for twenty-five years.
Richard Rowland's edition presents an old-spelling text which adheres more closely to the first quarto of 1594 than any edition hitherto. The present volume is the third in the Oxford English Texts Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe. A full commentary and introduction contextualize the play and give an entirely original account of the relationship between the play, Marlowe's own age, and events which immediately followed it. By re-examining textual cruces, new interpretative possibilities are opened up, and the play is related to the language and ideas of Marlowe's contemporaries. A generous selection from fiolinshed, Marlowe's principal source, is also included.
As critics and historians continue to debate attitudes to love, sexuality, and politics during the English Renaissance, this edition of Edward II extends that debate, offering a new understanding of the eroticism and vioence of the play.

Richard Rowland is Lecturer in English at St Anne's College, Oxford.

CONTENTS

References and abbreviations
General Introduction
Textual Introduction
A Note on the Edition

EDWARD II

Accidental Emendations
Commentary
Appendix: Holinshed's Chronicles (1587)

It is a great pleasure to thank friends and colleagues who have helped with this edition. Anne Borg did strenuous typing and was very patient with my often contradictory instructions. John Jowett proved an indispensable reader and saved me from many mistakes. Mary Bly, John Stephens, and David Womersley all made helpful suggestions about stylistic and textual difficulties, and Sos Eltis was a star as proof-reader, childminder and morale booster. Don Fowler and Mary Mount offered useful advice on classical references and translations, Paulina Kewes and Fiona Tweedie gave valuable help with the checking of the text. Overworked but cheerful staff at the Bodleian Library lave often made laborious days seem less so; in particular I should like to thank Helen, Vera, Tina, Peter, and Christine. At the Press Hilary Walford did a splendid job as copy-editor and Vicki Reeve liaised perfectly. Frances Whistler, though disclaiming the title, did everything and more that could be asked of a general editor, and even managed to become a friend in the process.
Three older debts are long overdue. John Pitcher has been as demanding and inspiring a supervisor as one could wish for, and has made many provocative contributions to this and other projects. Michael Cordner was my first tutor and has been endiessly supportive ever since. And without Anne Barton, who encouraged me when she had nothing but my naive enthusiasm to go on, neither this book nor anything else I achieve academically would ever have happened. Finally, to Linda and Joe I am hugely grateful for their support and their tolerance of my many absences of both body and mind.
Anthony Craft was as talented and stimulating a student as I expect to meet, and we had some good times discussing this and other plays, and many things besides. The dedication of this edition to him is a gesture of two kinds. First, it is one of sorrow that he did not live to see the fruits of those discussions. But it is also a gesture of hope, that the idealism with which and for which he constantly struggled will not be forgotten by the many friends he left behind.