Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593). Edward the Second.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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- KING EDWARD THE SECOND.
- PRINCE EDWARD, his Son, afterwards King Edward the Third.
- EARL OF KENT, Brother to King Edward the Second.
- GAVESTON.
- ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.
- BISHOP OF COVENTRY.
- BISHOP OF WINCHESTER.
- WARWICK.
- LANCASTER.
- PEMBROKE.
- ARUNDEL.
- LEICESTER.
- BERKELEY.
- MORTIMER, the elder.
- MORTIMER, the younger, his Nephew.
- SPENSER, the elder.
- SPENSER, the younger, his Son.
- BALDOCK.
- BEAUMONT.
- TRUSSEL.
- GURNEY.
- MATREVIS.
- LIGHTBORN.
- SIR JOHN OF HAINAULT.
- LEVUNE.
- RICE AP HOWEL.
- Abbot, Monks, Herald, Lords, Poor Men, James, Mower, Champion, Messengers, Soldiers, and Attendants.
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- QUEEN ISABELLA, Wife to King Edward the Second.
- Niece to King Edward the Second, daughter to the Duke of Gloucester. Ladies.]
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- “The reluctant pangs of abdicating Royalty in Edward furnished hints which Shakespeare scarcely improved in his ‘Richard the Second’; and the death-scene of Marlowe’s King moves pity and terror beyond any scene, ancient or modern, with which I am acquainted.”
CHARLES LAMB.
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