Edward II of England has been portrayed in popular culture a number of times.
Theatre and music
The most famous fictional account of Edward II's reign is
Christopher Marlowe's play
Edward II (c. 1592). It depicts Edward's reign as a single narrative, and does not include Bannockburn. It makes reference to Gaveston.
In recent years, several acclaimed productions have been staged in the
United Kingdom, although the play is seldom performed in the
United States outside of large cities and university towns.
Bertolt Brecht's adaptation of Marlowe's play,
The Life of Edward II of England, was written in 1923.
The English composer
John McCabe's ballet,
Edward II (1994), is also based on the Marlowe play.Edward II appears in
Maurice Druon's series of historical novels
The Accursed Kings. Actor
Christopher Buchholz played him in the 2005 French TV series adaptation of the novels.
Literature
Margaret Campbell Barnes'
Isabel the Fair,
Hilda Lewis'
Harlot Queen,
Maureen Peters'
Isabella, the She-Wolf, and
Brenda Honeyman's
The Queen and Mortimer all focus on Queen Isabella.
Eve Trevaskis'
King's Wake starts shortly after the fall of the Despensers and ends with the fall of
Roger Mortimer.
Most recently,
Susan Higginbotham in
The Traitor's Wife: A Novel of the Reign of Edward II looks at the reign and its aftermath through the eyes of Hugh le Despenser's wife,
Eleanor de Clare. Medieval
mystery novelists
P. C. Doherty and
Michael Jecks have set a number of their books against the...
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