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A review by platypusinplaid
Edward II by Christopher Marlowe
dark
emotional
sad
5.0
AUDREY'S ONE-SENTENCE BOOK REVIEWS
not the bury your gays trope smh🙄
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from Clifford Leech's lecture "Power and Suffering" at Bryn Mawr College, 1958:
not the bury your gays trope smh🙄
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from Clifford Leech's lecture "Power and Suffering" at Bryn Mawr College, 1958:
"And for Edward, Marlowe does not ask our liking: he is foolish, he is at his best pathetic [...], he is cruel to his wife [...], he knows himself so little that he thinks he erred only in too much clemency. There is barely a redeeming moment in the long presentation of his conduct. Yet what Marlowe has done is to make us deeply conscious of a humanity that we share with this man who happened to be also a king."