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Author Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956, author.

Title The life of Edward II of England / Bertolt Brecht ; translated by Jean Benedetti.

Publication Info. London : Bloomsbury, [2014]
©2014

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Description 1 online resource
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Note This translation previously issued in print: in Collected plays one. London: Methuen, 1998.
Translated from the German.
Summary Based on Christopher Marlowe's classic play, The Life of Edward II of England dramatizes the life of the king who was deposed and eventually murdered by his wife and her lover. Edward's treatment of his favourite courtier, Gaveston, causes discontent among the English nobles, and provokes the Queen's jealousy. She and her lover, Mortimer, raise an army, intending to put her son on the throne. Although Brecht used Marlowe's play as a source, he envisioned Edward II as a challenge to German Shakespearean traditions, which he considered stodgy and middle-class. It premiered in Munich in 1924.
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Local Note Bloomsbury Drama Online - Core Collection
Subject Edward II, King of England, 1284-1327 -- Drama.
Edward II, King of England, 1284-1327.
Genre/Form Drama.
Subject Great Britain -- History -- 14th century -- Drama.
Great Britain.
History.
Chronological Term 14th century
Genre/Form Drama.
Added Author Benedetti, Jean, translator.
Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956. Collected plays one.
Added Title Leben Eduards des Zweiten von England. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no99035757
ISBN 9781408161388.00000055
Standard No. 10.5040/9781408161388.00000055