Edward II

Edward II Sources and ClassicNote Author

  • Marlowe, Christopher. Doctor Faustus and Other Plays. New York: Oxford World's Classics, 1995.
  • Brodwin, Leonora Leet. "Edward II: Marlowe's Culminating Treatment of Love." ELH 31, no. 2 (1964): 139-55.

  • Wilkinson, C. P. Seabrook. "The Transmutation of Rhetoric in "Edward II"." Shakespeare Bulletin 14, no. 2 (1996): 5-7.

  • Stymeist, David. "Status, Sodomy, and the Theater in Marlowe's "Edward II"." Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 44, no. 2 (2004): 233-53.

  • Stocker, Wendy. "The Untuned String The World of Marlowe's "Edward II"." Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques 4, no. 2 (1977): 103-23.

  • Shirley, Christopher. "Sodomy and Stage Directions in Christopher Marlowe's "Edward(s) II"." Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 54, no. 2 (2014): 279-96.

  • Rutkoski, Marie. "Breeching the Boy in Marlowe's "Edward II"." Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 46, no. 2 (2006): 281-304.

  • Comensoli, Viviana. "Homophobia and the Regulation of Desire: A Psychoanalytic Reading of Marlowe's "Edward II"." Journal of the History of Sexuality 4, no. 2 (1993): 175-200.

  • Surgal, Jon. "The Rebel and the Red-Hot Spit: Marlowe's Edward II as Anal-Sadistic Prototype." American Imago 61, no. 2 (2004): 165-200.

  • Kelly, William B. "Mapping Subjects in Marlowe's "Edward II"." South Atlantic Review 63, no. 1 (1998): 1-19.

  • Knowles, Ronald. "The Political Contexts of Deposition and Election in "Edward II"." Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England 14 (2001): 105-21.

  • Pearson, Meg F. ""Die with Fame": Forgiving Infamy in Marlowe's Edward II." The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association 42, no. 2 (2009): 97-120.

  • Parks, Joan. "History, Tragedy, and Truth in Christopher Marlowe's "Edward II"." Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 39, no. 2 (1999): 275-90.

  • Crewe, Jonathan. "Disorderly Love: Sodomy Revisited in Marlowe's 'Edward II'." Criticism 51, no. 3 (2009): 385-99.

  • Donno, Elizabeth S. ""Admiration" AND "Commiseration" in Marlowe's "Edward II"." Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 79, no. 4 (1978): 372-83.

  • Deats, Sara Munson. "Myth and Metamorphosis in Marlowe's Edward II." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 22, no. 3 (1980): 304-21.

  • Mills, L. J. "The Meaning of "Edward II"." Modern Philology 32, no. 1 (1934): 11-31.

  • Sirluck, Katherine A. "Marlowe's "Edward II" and the Pleasure of Outrage." Modern Language Studies 22, no. 2 (1992): 15-24.

  • "The Holinshed Project." The Holinshed Project. 2/19/20. <http://www.cems.ox.ac.uk/holinshed/chronicles.shtml>.
  • "The Making of the Chronicles." The Holinshed Project. 2/19/20. <http://www.cems.ox.ac.uk/holinshed/chronicles.shtml>.
  • "Shakespeare and Holinshed’s Chronicles." OUP Blog . 2/19/20. <https://blog.oup.com/2015/12/shakespeare-holinsheds-chronicles/>.
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