description: The last of Marlowe's great dramas, often considered his masterpiece.
language: English
title: Edward the Second
titlecomplete: Edward the Second (New Mermaids)
characters: James, Edward II of England, First Poor Man, Hugh Despenser (The Younger), John de Stratford, Edward III of England, Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster, Roger Mortimer de Chirk, Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, The Champion, Mayor of Bristow, Aymer de Valence, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, Rhys ap Howel, Hugh Despenser (The Elder), Levune, Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, Isabella of France, Robert Winchelsey, Third Poor Man, Thomas de Berkeley, 3rd Baron Berkeley, Thomas Gurney, Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, Sir William Trussell, Second Poor Man, Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick, Post, John of Beaumont, The Mower, Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, Walter Langton, The Herald, Henry de Beaumont, Lightborn, Margaret de Clare, Horse Boy, Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall, John Maltravers, 1st Baron Maltravers, Robert Baldock, The Abbot of Neath
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, Historical, British Literature, LGBT, Drama, School, Classics, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 6771
publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc