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Edward II : historical play by Marlowe. Edward II was king of England (1307-27).

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... 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 ...

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... 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 ...

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... 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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