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The Life of Edward II of England

Full-Length Play, Drama  /  1w, 20m

Jean Benedetti, Bertolt Brecht

The Life of Edward II of England
By Bertolt Brecht
Translated by Jean Beneditti

Marlowe's play assimilated by Brecht, and without the sensuousness of the Renaqissance artist. Though not as eloquent, Brecht's Edward II is his best go at Heroic Tragedy, somewhat unique for Brecht. In this case Edward's heroism belongs to the category of the traditionally tragic, not utilitarian…

The Life of Edward II of England

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  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    1w, 20m
  • Duration
    Duration
    90 minutes
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Period

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Summary
Here shown before the public, the history of the troubled reign of Edward the Second, King of England, and his lamentable death. Likewise, the glory and end of his favourite, Gaveston. Further, the disordered fate of Queen Anne and the rise and fall of the great earl Roger Mortimer. All which befell in England more than 700 years ago. 
Cast Attributes

King Edward the Second 

Queen Ann, his consort

Kent, his brother

Young Edward, his son, afterwards King Edward III

Gaveston

Archbishop of Winchester

Lord Abbot of Coventry, afterwards Archbishop of Westminster 

Mortimer

Lancaster 

Rice ap Howell

Berkeley

Spencer 

Baldock

The elder Gurney 

The younger Gurney 

Lightborn

James

Peers

Soldiers

A ballad-monger 

A monk 


  • Setting 14th Century England and London
  • Duration 90 minutes

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Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), playwright, poet and director, was born in Augsburg, Germany in February 1898. He established himself as a playwright during the 1920s and early 1930s with plays such as Baal, Man is Man, The Threepenny Opera and The Mother. In 1933, as Hitler came ...
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