Newly crowned, Edward II recalls his exiled favourite Piers Gaveston and showers him with titles, enraging the barons led by the younger Mortimer and alienating Queen Isabella. Civil war, new favourites in the Spencers and shifting loyalties follow as Marlowe turns English chronicle history into tragedy.
One of the great Elizabethan history plays, written before Shakespeare’s best, for readers of Tudor drama. Download the free EPUB.