Asynchronous Edward: Comparing Online Responses to Gender in Christopher Marlowe's Edward II and Elizabeth Cary's The History of the Most Unfortunate Prince Edward II

Abstract

This essay examines how students in an online undergraduate English literature survey course (in 2023) reacted to and wrote responses in forum posts to a comparative reading of Christopher Marlowe’s sixteenth century play Edward II and Elizabeth Cary’s seventeenth century prose account of the same monarch.

Keywords

• marlowe
• online teaching
• edward ii
• elizabeth cary