![]() ![]() ![]() Please note: this production will feature moments of full male nudity and violence. Ten actors and three musicians will take on this incredibly visceral story in the candlelit beauty of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.īut what are kings, when regiment is gone, As Marlowes plays are Older Than Steam and this one is based on historical events, all spoilers on this. Filled with song and poetry and heart and guts, it is a violent, sumptuous and altogether thrilling ride, set in the period of Edward’s rule, but with a contemporary edge. A description of tropes appearing in Edward II. Threatened by the preferment shown to the ‘upstart’ Gaveston, and exasperated by Edward’s neglect of matters of state, the king’s nobles join forces with Queen Isabella and the clergy to plot the downfall of Edward’s circle of flatterers, and ultimately of the king himself.Įdward II is a play about homosexuality, the abuse of power and a quarrelling court. King Edward recalls his lover, Gaveston, from banishment and sets in motion a chain of events that will culminate in some of the most shocking scenes in all of early modern theatre. Forker's magisterial introduction in the Manchester U Revels Plays edition). Please note that this production has now closed. Christopher Marlowe's masterpiece, Edward II, is the first major English History play/tragedy in the renaissance canon, predating and providing a model for Shakespeare's Richard II and other plays of the genre (for that connection, see Charles R. ![]()
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