Edward II is an Elizabethan play written by Christopher Marlowe. It is one of the earliest English history plays. The full title of the first publication is The Troublesome Reign and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England, with the Tragical Fall of Proud Mortimer.
Marlowe found most of his material for this play in the third volume of Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles (1587). He stayed close to the account, but he embellished history with the character of Lightborn (or Lucifer) as Edward's assassin. The play was first acted in 1592 or 1593 by Pembroke's Men.Warning: template has been deprecated.
This transcription is of the fourth folio, printed in 1622. The work first appeared in print in 1584, and again in 1598 and 1612.
109037The Troublesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England1622Christopher Marlowe
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THE TROUBLESOME RAIGNE AND LAMENTABLE death of Edward the second, King of England :
WITH The Tragicall fall of proud Mortimer.
And also the life and death of Peirs Gavestone, the great Earle of Cornewall, and mighty Favorite of King Edward the second.
As it was publikely acted by the right Honourable the Earle of Pembrooke his servants.
