Edward the Second : the troublesome reign and lamentable death of Edward the Second, King of England, with the tragical fall of proud Mortimer / Christopher Marlowe
dc.contributor | Ule, Louis Rolling Hills |
dc.contributor.author | Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593 |
dc.coverage.placeName | Oxford |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T09:55:51Z |
dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T09:55:51Z |
dc.date.created | 1962 |
dc.date.issued | 1992-03-12 |
dc.identifier | ota:1618 |
dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/1618 |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/1618 |
dc.description.abstract | [1591-1594] |
dc.format.extent | Text data (1 file : ca. 135 KB) |
dc.format.medium | Digital bitstream |
dc.language | English |
dc.language.iso | eng |
dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Core Collection |
dc.rights | Oxford Text Archive |
dc.rights.uri | https://ota.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/repository/xmlui/page/licence-ota |
dc.rights.label | ACA |
dc.subject.lcsh | English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 |
dc.subject.other | Plays |
dc.title | Edward the Second : the troublesome reign and lamentable death of Edward the Second, King of England, with the tragical fall of proud Mortimer / Christopher Marlowe |
dc.type | Text |
has.files | yes |
branding | Oxford Text Archive |
files.size | 142928 |
files.count | 2 |
otaterms.date.range | 1900-1999 |
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<Author>Marlowe, Christopher</Author>
<Title>The Troublesome Reign and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England, with the Tragical Fall of Proud Mortimer.</Title>
<Edition>The Works of Christopher Marlowe. C. F. Tucker Brooke, ed. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1962</Edition>
<Date>1591-1594</Date>
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<l>Enter Gaveston, reading on a letter that</l>
<l>Was brought him from the king.</l>
<l>Gav. 'my father is deceased. come Gaveston,</l>
<l>And share the kingdom with thy dearest friend.'</l>
<l>Ah, words that make me surfeit with delight!</l>
<l>What greater bliss can hap to Gaveston</l>
<l>Than live and be the favorite of a king!</l>
<l>Sweet prince, i come! these, these thy amorous lines</l>
<l>Might have enforced me to have swum from france,</l>
<l>And, like leander, gasped upon the sand,</l>
<l>So thou wouldst smile, and take me in thine arms.</l>
<l>The sight of london to my exiled eyes</l>
<l>Is as elysium to . . .