Edward II : historical play by Marlowe. Edward II was king of England (1307-27).
... whose influence counted for much in the making of Shakespeare, one from Faustus Was this the face that launched a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? and another from Edward II I am that cedar, shake me not too much; And you the eagles; soar ye ne'er so high, I have the jesses that will pull you down; And Aeque tandem shall that canker cry Unto the proudest peer ...
... Marlowe To me he seems an experiment wherein the occult voices were conceiving an epic drama with the central conception bodied forth a little loosely in semi-dissolving scenes. What about Edward II ? Marlowe had already moved towards the well-built drama. Page 374 Shakespeare's Hamlet Would you take, as many critics do, Hamlet as typically a mental being? How would you characterise ...
... conclusion Marlowe died a violent death at the age of twenty-nine. What would his twofold impulse have ripened into? Would he have penned an epic? Would he have mastered the drama? In Edward II he was moving towards dramatic structure; but such a framework seems to have run counter to his Page 64 purely poetic urge and wearied and weakened it by too stringent and pr ...
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