Context: Gaveston had been exiled from England, separated from Edward, whom he loves. He receives a letter from Edward, telling Gaveston to come “And share the kingdom with thy dearest friend” (Marlowe 1.1.2).
Gaveston is incredibly pleased to be returning to Edward.
Metaphor: Gaveston compares himself to the Greek mythological hero, “Leander.” Leander supposedly swam across the Hellespont every night to be with the woman he loved. Gaveston is using the story of Leander to compare to his reunion with the king. Gaveston also uses another metaphor to describe his feelings upon seeing London. He compares it the experience of seeing “Elysium to a new-come soul” (Marlowe 1.1.11).
Elysium is the ancient Greek perception of an afterlife paradise. Gaveston is comparing the euphoria he will feel to that of entering Elysium or paradise.
Commentary: Gaveston is over enthused to be returning to the king after being exiled for so long. Gaveston says, “My knee shall bow to none but to the king,” which emphasizes his love for Edward II.
Gaveston: Ay, ay. These words of his move me as much
As if a goose should play the porpentine,
And dart her plumes, thinking to pierce my breast. (Marlowe 1.1.38-40)
Context: The Third Poor Man tells Edward that he was a soldier and Edward responds by telling him that he is not fighting a war, therefore he has no need for him. The Third Poor Man replies with a curse saying that Edward will perish by a soldier’s hand.
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Metaphor: Gaveston compares his feelings towards the threat to his feelings of a goose imitating a porcupine and attacking him. The goose would be using its feathers as quills with the intent of harming him. Edward is stating that the Third Poor Man threatening him is like a goose attempting to harm him.
Commentary: The Third Poor Man is clearly infuriated by Gaveston’s response to his threat. Gaveston’s comparison of his feelings to the situation is as if he had been threatened by a goose. Edward says that the goose would “dart her plumes, thinking to pierce my breast,” implying that the goose is ridiculous to think that it could even hope to pierce his breast (Marlowe 1.1.40).
Gaveston is saying that the Third Poor Man is equally ridiculous to even threaten Edward, much less believe that he could harm him. Gaveston does not take the third poor man’s threat seriously because he thinks him to be as harmless as a goose.
Gaveston: … I think myself as great
As Cæsar riding in the Roman street,
With captive kings at his triumphant car. (Marlowe 1.1.171-173)
Context: King Edward blissfully welcomes Gaveston to England and chooses to express his love for Gaveston by bestowing upon him many titles normally reserved for those of noble birth and offering him anything he can provide. Gaveston graciously declines Edward’s other offers, however, and insists that he needs only Edward’s love to satisfy him.
Metaphor: Gaveston compares himself to “Caesar riding in the Roman street” (Marlowe 1.1.172).
Julius Caesar was the great Roman dictator who won many victories for Rome and who the majority of the people supported. Gaveston also illustrates his feelings to be like having “captive kings at his triumphant car” (Marlowe 1.1.173).
Julius Caesar of Rome was granted “triumphs” to celebrate his victories and the former queen of Egypt was paraded around during one of them (Wikipedia).
Commentary: While Gaveston claims that his only desire is to have Edward’s love, his comparison of himself to Julius Caesar reveals his vanity and lust for power. His comparison of himself to Caesar having “captive kings at his triumphant car” shows that he believes he now possesses higher power than kings or in this case, King Edward’s nobles (Marlowe 1.1.173).
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Mortimer Junior: We’d hale him from the bosom of the King, And the court gate hang the peasant up,
Who, swoll’n with venom of ambitious pride,
Will be the ruin of the realm and us. (Marlowe 1.2.29-32)
Context: Mortimer Junior and Senior, Lancaster, and Warwick are debating the most efficient solution to removing Gaveston from the King’s side and hopefully, from England all together. While everyone in the group acknowledges that they despise Gaveston; however, they can’t seem to reach a general consensus on how to dispose of him. Young Mortimer finally suggests that they simply seize Gaveston and hang him.
Metaphor: Young Mortimer uses the word “hale” used as a verb means “to compel.” (Dictionary.com) However, it has an alternate meaning as an adjective which means “free from disease or infirmity” (Dictionary.com).
He also states that they must take Gaveston from the “bosom” of the king. Bosom actually means “a woman’s breasts” and has a connotation meaning, “close or intimate” (Dictionary.com) Mortimer uses the word venom to Gaveston’s ambitious pride is like venom as in the venom from a snake or other toxic life form which would be poisonous and possibly deadly.
Commentary: By using the word Hale, Mortimer Junior is stating that Gaveston is a disease that needs to be removed from the king and England. He sponging off of Edward like a child sucking mile from his mother’s breasts, or “bosoms.” Edward in this situation is the mother, while Gaveston is the child, always being provided for and taken care of by his mother. Young Mortimer and the other nobles believe Gaveston to be below them due to his bloodline and worthy of only being a criminal.
He says to go to “the court gate hang the peasant up,” the court gate, of course, being the location where you would hang a common criminal (Marlowe 1.2.30).
Young Mortimer refers to Gaveston as a peasant only to emphasize what he is to all the nobles considering he is of common blood. The nobles are concerned about the influence Gaveston holds over the king and the possibility of his power increasing. Young Mortimer says that Gaveston is “swoll’n with venom of ambitious pride” (Marlowe 1.2.31) which shows they fear his power is like a poison that will seep throughout the upper class of England and destroy it like a snake’s venom would kill an animal.
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Edward: My heart is as an anvil unto sorrow,
Which beats upon it like the Cyclops’ hammers,
And with the noise turns up my giddy brain,
And makes me frantic for my Gaveston. (1.4.311-314)
Context: The nobles, along with the Priest of Canterbury force Edward to sign a document that exiles Gaveston from England. Edward does all he can to resist them, but is ultimately forced to do their bidding. Edward is anguished afterwards and mourns over the loss of his beloved Gaveston.
Metaphor: Edward uses an anvil as a metaphor for his heart. An anvil is a medieval steel tool that is used to forge tools and weapons by beating them upon its surface. His statement that the “Cyclops’ hammers” beat upon the anvil/his heart is referencing the Cyclops of Greek myth who worked in the forges of the gods and made weapons for them.
Commentary: Edward equates himself to an anvil in order to show how he is beaten upon by those around him and the lack of authority he presides over his nobles. The nobles, who beat upon him “like the Cyclops’ hammers,” are continuously pressuring him into making decisions that he does not agree with which is what is now causing Gaveston to be exiled.
