![]() ![]() ![]() The gap of about three years between the king’s murder and execution of Mortimer has been completely eliminated. The time span of 27 years following the arrest and execution of Gaveston has been compressed into consecutive scenes. He has abridged the time span and omitted certain events to compress the plot. He adopts, abridges, transposes and juxtaposes them to create new situations. Yet, Marlowe does not slavishly follow the chronological order of even. The play explores the tragic tensions between sexual passion and marriage, royal responsibility and self-fulfilment, noble privilege and raw ambition. Here we see ‘the life of sensations rather than of thought! The historical background Edward I reigning England successively from 1272-1307 and banishment of his son’s most dissolute friend Gascon – can not be said tracked. Marlowe portrays the king’s downfall as a result of his love for his favourites, Gaveston and Spencer his neglect of his queen and earls and the rise of Queen Isabella and her lover Mortimer. ![]() Marlowe depicts the narrow bar from the very historical threshold but by the rosy wings of poesy flights to the castle of keatsian world of imagination. Marlowe invites the Elizabethans who bubbled with national pride and looked is the dramatists for information about national heroes and their deeds. The historical fervour and the spirited zeal are well conceived here. Marlowe’s Edward II is the finest flowering of a historical play. ![]()
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