![]() In this narrative of literary development, the episodic chronicle play fails to show the disparate events of the past contributing to a single action-fails, like the chronicle, to comprehend the past-while the history play successfully makes sense of those events. ![]() Within the development of Elizabethan drama, Edward II is granted a crucial role in bringing to the English “chronicle play”-including Shakespeare’s Henry VI plays and Richard III-the unity and purpose of the mature “history” play, epitomized by Shakespeare’s later, more aesthetically sophisticated tetralogy. ![]() Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II is typically applauded as an aesthetic achievement, a history play that brings form and meaning to the incoherent material of its chronicle source by retelling the king’s slightly dull, twenty-year reign as the fierce and deadly struggle of a few willful personalities. ![]()
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