Edward II
Author: Christopher Marlowe
Marlowe’s play retains its power to shock even today, and this edition gives full value to its three overriding themes of sexual favouritism, political confrontation and sheer cruelty. Critics in the last twenty years, who have focused on the overtly sexual relationship between Edward and his favourite Gaveston, have hailed it as a ‘gay classic’; earlier interpretations co….Read More
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