A video essay looking at the relationship between power and passion in Christopher Marlowe's 'Edward II'

Footage taken from the BBCs 1969 production of Edward II, directed by Toby Robertson

Bibliography:
Meyer, A. M. (2021). From a Noble Lady to an Unnatural Queen: Imagining Queen Isabel in Chronicle History and Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II. In Telltale Women: Chronicling Gender in Early Modern Historiography (pp. 121–174). University of Nebraska Press.
Stymeist, D. (2004). Status, Sodomy, and the Theater in Marlowe’s “Edward II.” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, 44(2), 233–253.
Thurn, D. H. (1990). Sovereignty, Disorder, and Fetishism in Marlowe’s “Edward II.” Renaissance Drama, 21, 115–141.
Tromley, F. B. (1998). The Play of History and Desire: Edward II. In Playing with Desire: Christopher Marlowe and the Art of Tantalization (pp. 113–132) University of Toronto Press.

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