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	[EMLS 3.2 (September, 1997): 1.1-30] Marlowe, Edward II, and the Cult of Elizabeth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He is therefore, like Edward II, the antithesis of Queen Elizabeth: it is against the ideal of the ruler as enshrined in her cult that he is judged and found wanting.
		In the early scenes of the play there is a sense that the nobles are mainly moved by snobbery and that Gaveston is in his anarchic way on the crowd's side against entrenched privilege.
		Edward's creation of new peers, his disruption of aristocratic hierarchies ("He that I list to favour shall be great"), would have been a further illustration of the same fear.
	www.shu.ac.uk /emls/03-2/kaymarl.html (4327 words)

	AisleSay (Boston) "Edward II"
		Edward's chief nobles were offended because the king heaped favors and wealth on a young man of middling birth, and they demanded that he banish him.
		Edward goes to his grave declaring that he has done no wrong, sure that his delight in Gaveston is lawful, and his promotion of Gaveston's interests before all else well within his rights.
		From the first performance of Edward II to the day before yesterday, there has not been another scene in which a monarch is so accused, exposed, humiliated and punished as King Edward is in the death scene in Marlowe's play.
	www.stagepage.info /reviews/EdwardII.html (1326 words)

	Edward II (play) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The play telescopes most of Edward II's reign into a single narrative, beginning with the recall of his lover, Piers Gaveston, from exile, and ending with his son Edward III's execution of Mortimer the younger for the king's murder.
		Edward is forced to agree to this and banishes Gaveston to Ireland, but Isabella of France, the Queen, who still hopes for his favour, persuades Mortimer, her lover, to argue for his recall, though only so that he may be more conveniently murdered.
		The play was adapted by Bertolt Brecht in 1923 as Leben Eduard des Zweitens.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edward_II_(play) (942 words)

	glbtq >> social sciences >> Edward II, King of England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Edward was born on April 25, 1284 at Caernarvon Castle in Wales.
		Edward and Gaveston were ill-prepared for the rebellion, and after being besieged in his castle, Gaveston quickly surrendered, assuming he would be treated favorably by the Earl of Pembroke.
		Edward's love for Gaveston certainly defied conventional boundaries, but it is hard to pinpoint whether Edward's ultimate transgression was simply loving one man too much, thereby unsettling the delicate balance of patronage, or was a violation of sexual boundaries as well.
	www.glbtq.com /social-sciences/edward_II.html (916 words)

	'Edward II'
		Edward II," Derek Jarman's phantasmagoric, outrageously stylized interpretation of the Christopher Marlowe play, is more a creature of its director's sensibility than its creator's.
		In his hands, "Edward II" has become a chic melodrama that's part art object, part "The Valley of the Dolls." The king (Steven Waddington) and Gaveston (Andrew Tiernan) parade around with their followers at their heels like a surly street gang spoiling for a fight.
		And his idea of casting Edward's queen, Isabella (the beautifully mannequin-like Tilda Swinton), as a medieval Imelda Marcos, sublimating her sexual frustrations with ever more lavish Hermes gowns, is outrageously appropriate.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/edwardiirhinson_a0a760.htm (411 words)

	Edward the Second
		Edward the Second is a tragedy built upon the politics of sexual rejection and magnetism, of naked ambition, of sadism, of willful selfishness, and of miscalculation which ultimately leads to civil chaos.
		Edward’s obsession with his male lover Gaveston, which he attempts to preserve at all costs, clearly accounts for his failure as a king and culminates in his gruesome murder, making him finally a martyr to his passion.
		Edward the Second is considered one of the most difficult and elaborate plays to produce, but director Graham Brown will transform Christopher Marlowe's tragedy into and hour and 15 minute one-act play with a cast of five.
	www.tripnyc.org /edward.htm (313 words)

	Edward II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In royalty, Edward II was the name of an English king.
		In music Edward II is the name of a band.
		In theatre Edward II is the name of a play by Christopher Marlowe.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/e/ed/edward_ii.html (104 words)

	Edward II
		The play Edward II (1591) by Marlowe portrays Edward II and Gaveston as lovers.
		There are other problems, such as why Edward I is referred to as a "pagan", the date of his death, and the date of Gaveston's murder.
		Note that even if Edward II isn't the father of his wife's children, it only removes a single person from our ancestry, namely Edward II, since we also descend from his full siblings.
	humphrysfamilytree.com /Royal/edward.ii.html (513 words)

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		The film portrays his son Edward II (reigned 1307-27) in homophobic terms, as a weakling unworthy of rule, and suggests that his son was begotten by William Wallace (who in fact died before Edward II was even married).
		Those plays are divided into two groups of four plays each, known as the First Tetralogy, written between 1588 and 1593, and the Second Tetralogy, written from 1597 to 1599.
		The murder of Prince Edward is depicted in 3 Henry VI V. v, and that of Henry VI in 3 Henry VI V. vi.
	www.uic.edu /classes/engl/engl313/history1.html (952 words)

	Edward II
		It distilled the number of characters from 40 to 20 and strengthened the play by enlarging the roles of the Queen (Edward's devoted wife) and Mortimer (the ally to whom she drifts to recapture the kingdom).
		The play portrays Edward II's historic "fatal infatuation" with Piers Gaveston, a Gascon knight who was banished by Longshanks as a bad influence on his son.
		The play traces the king's transformation from a frivolous, foolish and irrational young man to a tragic hero, toughened by hardships and by his soldier's life in the field, who struggles first not to abandon Gaveston and, ultimately, not to give up his crown.
	www.nytheatre-wire.com /edw2jcr.htm (1031 words)

	marloweryan
		Edward's assassination will be staged as a degrading parody of his apocalyptic revenge, his "treading" his enemies underfoot to stain himself with their blood.
		With Edward's confinement in the castle cesspool, Marlowe adds a further degradation to enlarge the historical record and develop the Elizabethan chroniclers' strong implication that the king is afflicted with a series of torments modeled on Passion lore.
		Edward, bedraggled in his "tattered robes," recalls his divestiture before he remembers his appearance as a young knight: "Tell Isabel, the queen, I looked not thus/When for her sake I ran at tilt in France/And there unhorsed the Duke of Cleremont" [5.5.67-69].
	www.geocities.com /katacheson/marloweryan.html (8354 words)

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		Edward of Caernarfon is best known today for his disastrous military defeat in 1314 at Bannockburn, where his English army was defeated by a vastly inferior Scottish force led by Robert the Bruce, leading to Scottish Independence.
		This catastrophe was one of many in a disastrous career marked by indolence, vengefulness, vacillation in relationships with France, deranged policies at home, and constitutional wrangling, ultimately brought to an end by a minor insurgency led by his vindictive wife and her paramour, a disaffected baron.
		Roy Martin Haines examines Edward II's eventful life and the more salient periods of his reign, situating the monarch in the context of the "empire" he inherited and the aftermath of his unregretted death.
	www.play.com /Books/Books/GENCS/100/157/-/1061687/King_Edward_II/Product.html?searchtype=genre (201 words)

	Edward III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The play was registered late in 1595 and published by the same publisher of the first quarto of Love's Labour's Lost and the second quarto of Romeo and Juliet.
		Edward Capell proposed an attribution to Shakespeare in 1760, but Eric Sams (1926-2004) finally got the play accepted by many orthodox scholars as Shakespeare's work.
		Edward III often remains among the apocrypha, but the New Cambridge edition and the New Oxford Shakespeare now include it in the canon.
	www.wsu.edu /~delahoyd/shakespeare/edward3.1.html (592 words)

	Jim's Reviews - Jarman's Edward II
		Edward II Looking at his slim but incomparable volume of poetry and dramas, Marlowe's tragic death at the age of 29 is perhaps the single greatest loss in all of English literature;only the poet John Keats, who died at 26, comes immediately to mind as 'runner up'.
		Edward II was the most radically gay-affirmative work not only of the Renaissance but since the flourishing of GLBT life in the civilized ancient worlds of Greece and Rome.
		Edward and Gaveston, just by being 'out, loud and proud' – by being sensuously and even contradictorily human – effectively challenge the power base of the regime, which we see is more the council of nobles and their uniformed accomplices in the church and military than the king himself.
	jclarkmedia.com /jarman/jarman09edward.html (5610 words)

	English Monarchs - Kings and Queens of England - Edward II. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Edward I, irate at the scandalous nature of their relationship, had threatened to disinherit his son, even going as far as to question the chastity of his beloved Queen, Eleanor of Castille.
		Edward failed in an attempt to rally London and fled, but was captured and forced to abdicate in favour of his fourteen year old son, Edward.
		The posthumous reputation of Edward II Edward III, who was said to have been attached to the memory of his father, felt troubled in his conscience at the part he had been made to play in his overthrow and later commissioned a magnificent memorial effigy for his tomb.
	www.englishmonarchs.co.uk /plantagenet_6.htm (1018 words)

	Edward II at Circle X in Hollywood
		As the play goes on, two live percussionists beat away to frame the action, using everything from claves to bass drums.
		The history is as follows: Edward II, who ruled England from 1307-26, was unashamedly gay.
		The rest of the play is essentially a battle royal focusing on the civil war ahead, the exile of Edward, and the struggle between Mortimer, Edward, Anne and Young Edward for the crown.
	www.theater2k.com /EdwardII.html (589 words)

	edward04 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Edward's plight was further complicated by the fact that he took a male lover and bestowed on him all sorts of titles.
		In the play, at least, Edward was no fop when it came to plotting against his enemies.
		EDWARD II, Sunday night at the Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati, 1127 Vine St., Over-the-Rhine.
	www.cincypost.com /living/1997/edward042197.html (307 words)

	Richard II the play by William Shakespeare
		The picture is 18th century and image displayed represents the essence of the play which, we hope, will bring to life a famous scene or character from the play.
		Richard II was a king by virtue of the divine right of kings and thus God's elected deputy.He is intelligent but weak.
		Eighteen unauthorised versions of his plays were, however, published during his lifetime in quarto editions by unscrupulous publishers (there were no copyright laws protecting Shakespeare and his works during the Elizabethan era).
	www.william-shakespeare.info /shakespeare-play-king-richard-ii.htm (851 words)

	Theater \| (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Richard II is a fascinating study in a self-destructive narcissism.
		The play chronicles the period in Richard’s late-14th-century reign from shortly after the mysterious murder of his uncle, Duke of Gloucester, through the usurpation of the throne by his cousin, Henry Bolingbroke, who’s now better known as Henry IV.
		The arc of the play traces a self-destructive act, and we are investigating this notion that it is a creative act to undo.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/arts/theater/documents/01536100.htm (842 words)

	Edward II - Ballet
		Edward II, born in 1284, was the youngest of 14 or more children of Edward I and his queen, Eleanor of Castile, and it was only the tragedy of child mortality of the period that brought him to the throne.
		One of Edward's first acts, on ascending the throne at the death of his father, was to recall Gaveston from exile, to the consternation of his young bride, and it is here that the tragedy begins which was to culminate in Edward's cruel and appalling death, at the hands of Isabella and her lover, Mortimer.
		The ballet of Edward II was created by David Bintley from the play by Christopher Marlowe, probably the greatest of Shakespeare's rival playwrights, and himself a homosexual, who died by violence, in a tavern brawl, at the age of 29.
	www.johnmccabe.com /edwardii (476 words)

	Richard II (play)
		Richard II is a play by William Shakespeare, based on the life of King Richard II of England, written in 1595.
		Richard II is not only a work of its own but it is also written as the first part of a tetralogy[?].
		As the title suggests, Richard II is the main character of the play.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ri/Richard_II_(play).html (890 words)

	Edward II, a CurtainUp review
		The play provides a sincere and often eloquent analysis of the nature of power, but the humanity that would make it interesting on stage is elusive, forcing actors and directors to excavate if they seek something beyond allegory.
		Edward is vain and silly; Gaveston a nonentity; Mortimer arrogant; Queen Anne flimsy and opportunistic.
		Edward II's statement on power is articulate and moving, but here, the production's the thing, and the challenge is to look beyond the play's message and find its theatrical expression.
	www.curtainup.com /edwardbrecht.html (848 words)

	EDWARD II
		Edward’s death with a red-hot poker thrust into his bowels had been discretely mimed behind a curtain when Harley Granville Barker played the eponymous role.
		The auditions for Gaveston, Edward’s lover, were conducted at Hampstead Theatre Club in London, where actors were asked to kiss me – I still recall the first softness of James Laurenson’s lips, which was a bonus throughout the run.
		She said that they had played just one afternoon performance in Hollywood, then a settlement so small that they moved on to play elsewhere the same evening.
	www.mckellen.com /stage/edward/index.htm (481 words)

	Talkin' Broadway Off-Broadway - Edward II - 10/14/04
		Edward, in his hitherto unquestioned reign as king, blindly assumes that his beloved Gaveston will be accepted simply because he decrees it so.
		Though all of the actresses bring electricity to the stage, it is reassuring that both Edward II and Gaveston embody their roles with all the passion and determination required to carry the show.
		This Edward II possesses a sleek elegance and hip edge not previously seen, a vision that explodes in a fire of texture, zeal, and lustrous images.
	www.talkinbroadway.com /ob/10_14a_04.html (741 words)

	Edward Ii - Movie Review
		None of his final movies is more fascinating than Edward II, his adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's 16th-century play about the royal intrigue surrounding one of England’s legendarily bad monarchs.
		Edward is quite distracted from affairs of state, much to the distress and anger of the court (somber men in business suits) and his ignored queen Isabella (Tilda Swinton).
		Even though Edward was a crummy king, it’s hard not to feel absolutely livid when he’s dragged off to meet his end, an ugly death that involves a red hot poker.
	www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/edwardii (443 words)

	Edward II: review on TheaterMania.com
		Edward II was adapted by Brecht from Christopher Marlowe's play of the same title.
		For example, in Brecht's version Edward's chief opponent Mortimer is not a warrior by nature as he is in the Marlowe play; instead, he's a scholar who is called upon to present the argument in favor of the banishment of Gaveston from the royal court.
		Edward is more actively noble toward the end of the play: We see him refusing to give up his crown, which he consents to do in Marlowe, and remaining resolute in a face-to-face confrontation with Mortimer.
	www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm/story/6674 (935 words)

	Knitting Circle Edward II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		However, Gaveston was to become Edward II's lover and a focal point of the baronial discontent that was to last throughout his reign, ending in Edward II's deposition and murder in 1327.
		A modernised rendition of Edward II's life is portrayed in Derek Jarman's film, adapted from Christopher Marlowe's play Edward II.
		Edward II was listed at number 192 in the top 500 lesbian and gay heroes in The Pink Paper, 10th.
	www.knittingcircle.org.uk /edwardii.html (325 words)

	Edward II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		1307-27 -- Edward II was weak and inept, dominated by his favorites and by his French queen.
		Edward II was killed by order of his wife, some say with a hot poker up his rectum.
		But it does show the English that the common people have to be taken into account, just as the rebels had touted a partnership between ruler and common man. It took the other nations to teach England how to be a nation.
	www.vernonjohns.org /snuffy1186/edwardii.html (274 words)

	Han Loo
		My interpretation of Edward II centered around a quotation from Act I scene iv, shortly after King Edward is forced to subscribe to Gaveston’s banishment.
		While I did not see Edward II as a tragic or sympathetic hero, I did see him as an individual rebelling, in an almost teenaged fashion, against the restrictions put upon him by his peers, and by the very religion which pedestals him in his kingship.
		As the play progressed I would have the statue slowly become more ruined, so that by the end of the play it is nothing but a chipped pedestal carrying atop some rubble, the significance of this decay being fairly obvious.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~hloo/edward2/ed2prodanalysis.html (1117 words)

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