A reflection on love, violence, power and betrayal Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II, one of the earliest English history plays, gets ...

On taking my seat in the Olivier for Edward II, I feared the worst. Two large screens, an exposed Brechtian set, a lone keyboard player. This didn’t bode well. But, the frankly risible pianist aside, ...

"I'll bandy with the barons and the earls, and either die or live with Gaveston." There has been much conjecture over the centuries as to the true nature of Edward II’s relationship with Piers ...

Tamara Harvey took no heed and Edward II sees her RSC compadre, Daniel Evans (pictured below, kneeling centre), back on stage after 14 years and in the title role to boot. In Daniel Raggett’s stripped ...

The discussion turns to what Edward and Gaveston’s relationship may have been, why Gaveston was captured and executed, and how Edward II’s reign unraveled after Bannockburn. The hosts also examine the ...

Directed by Daniel Raggett, Marlowe’s tender, yet violent play about King Edward II and the man he loves features Daniel Evans - the RSC’s Co-Artistic Director and double Olivier Award-winner - in the ...

The reign of Edward II, King of England, is troubled from the start, when he brings his male lover, hated by the nobles, out of exile.

Edward, much to the despair of his wife and contempt of his barons, is very fond of both. King Edward comes to the throne, and immediately recalls his banished lover, Pierce Gaveston- an order that ...