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Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w, 20m
Jean Benedetti, Bertolt Brecht
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…
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.
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
14th Century England and London