![]() ![]() ![]() As a shelf-mark on its title page indicates but as has not been widely noted, this copy came from the library of Johann Jakob Bodmer (1698–1793), the Swiss philosopher, literary critic and proselytizer for English literature through his early translation of Paradise Lost into German prose. The Zentral bibliothek in Zurich has held the (apparently) single surviving copy, now widely available through Early English Books Online. ![]() Justin Avoth as Lord Maltravers, Liam Brennan as Edward II and Albie Woodington as Gurney in Edward II, directed by Timothy Walker, Shakespeare’s Globe, London, 2003 Following the Second World War, there was one. This article originally appared in The Times of London Literary Supplement on December 21, 2012.įor half of the twentieth century, there were only two known copies of the first edition (1594) of Edward II by Christopher Marlowe – his most tightly designed play, a strong influence on Shakespeare’s Richard II, and recently a central text for the history of sexuality. ![]()
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