Marlowe's play dramatises the struggles of Edward II, a real-life King of England who reigned from 1307 to 1327. A year after Edward II succeeded his father, Edward I, he married the King of ...

Archaeologists just dug up the 700-year-old life-sized stone head of King Edward II in the ruins of a medieval abbey. "The quality of the carving is just absolutely stunning. You can even see the ...

Ncuti Gatwa and Edward Bluemel will play Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare in the West End in the European premiere of Born With Teeth.

Shakespeare’s culture and society made much more space for the ... who scorned those “that love not tobacco and boys” and wrote a historical tragedy about England’s queer king Edward II?

Now, a new version of Edward II has hit the stage of The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in London—running through April 4—and it’s not afraid to make the show the unabashedly queer tragic ...

Four centuries and 32 years after Christopher Marlowe’s death, the playwright is getting a West End resurrection alongside William Shakespeare - and Variety has an exclusive first look at the ...

Edward D. Shanshala II: It’s time to cut out the middlemen driving up drug costs. May 1, 2025 ... Edward D. Shanshala. Click for guidelines and instructions to contribute an op-ed column.

In 1976, Queen Elizabeth II recognized the Bicentennial by gifting the United States a bell forged at the same foundry as the Liberty Bell, and famously declaring in a speech in Philadelphia that ...

A new revival of Christopher Marlowe's pioneering play about the 14th-Century King of England puts the spotlight back on his relationship with his male "favourite" Piers Gaveston.

A new revival of Christopher Marlowe's pioneering play about the 14th-Century King of England puts the spotlight back on his relationship with his male "favourite" Piers Gaveston.