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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.
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 ...
Theatre fans rejoice, as the Royal Shakespeare Company is delighting us with a special production of the historic gay story Edward II running this spring.. The play tells the often overlooked tale of ...
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?
Read our review of Edward II at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon: Daniel Raggett directs Daniel Evans in Marlowe’s pacy tale of palace intrigue ...
Edward II – excellent Evans. Before he became a director, Evans was an acclaimed actor, making a name for himself in Royal Shakespeare Company productions in the 1990s, then appearing in ...
Ncuti Gatwa and Edward Bluemel will play Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare in the West End in the European premiere of Born With Teeth.
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 ...
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 ...
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.