by Kirk Melnikoff (Author), Kirk Melnikoff (Editor)
Edward II: A Critical Reader gives students, teachers and scholars alike an overview of the play's reception both in the theatre and among artists and critics, from the end of the 16th century to the beginning of the 21st. The volume also offers a series of new perspectives on the play by leading experts in the field of early modern history and culture. Bolstered with a timeline tracking Marlowe's life and work, an up-to-date bibliography and an extensive index, this collection is an ideal and definitive guide to Edward II.
Author Biography
Kirk Melnikoff is Associate Professor of English at UNC Charlotte, USA. He has published numerous articles and chapters on Elizabethan literature and culture, has edited two volumes on the late sixteenth-century pamphleteer Robert Greene, and is the 2013 co-winner of the Calvin and Rose G. Hoffman Prize for a Distinguished Essay on Christopher Marlowe.