Scotland's Fight For Independence Aug 10, 2008
His son, now Edward II, left English garrisons to fend for themselves with no support ... Edward II marched north with a lavishly-equipped army. (Suite101.com)
Q! Film Festival: Where cinematic fabulousness rules Aug 10, 2008
Another Hollywood film being screened is the Oscar winning Gods and Monsters, which is featured in the gay classics section alongside Caravaggio, Edward II and My Beautiful Laundrette. QFF audience regular Elyzavia, 24, loves this particular section of the festival. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Edwards admits affair Aug 9, 2008
Complete Guide to Edward II with summaries and much more. www. (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
Prince Charles Goes Green, Saves Dough Jul 2, 2008
The 59-year-old heir to the throne receives private income from properties of The Duchy of Cornwall, the 136,000-acre estate established in 1337 by King Edward II to provide income for his heir. Charles' official spending, including money spent on charitable work and official duties, was 10. (CBS News -- Early Show)
Into the wild with a fearless mind Jun 19, 2008
In recent years, he has played the tubercular artist in John Osborne's and Anthony Creighton's Epitaph For George Dillon, Berowne in the National Theatre's Love's Labour's Lost, and the lead in Marlowe's Edward II at the Sheffield Crucible. Fiennes is typically exact on the differences between stage and screen acting, for instance, the extra possibilities offered by the close-up: "Cinema's interesting when it's here [he mimes a camera near his face] and you say something, but you mean something... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
'I wanted freedom' Jun 11, 2008
In recent years, he has played the tubercular artist in John Osborne and Anthony Creighton's Epitaph for George Dillon, Berowne in the National's Love's Labour's Lost, and the lead in Marlowe's Edward II at the Sheffield Crucible in 2001. Fiennes is typically exact on the differences between stage and screen acting. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
The Later Plantagenets May 25, 2008
Edward II (1307-1327) ... Edward III (1327-1377) ... The grandson of Edward III, Richard came to the throne as a minor as his father, the famous Black Prince had died in 1376. (Suite101.com)
Scott Street, San Francisco May 9, 2008
Edward II Inn and Suites. 3155 Scott St.: If you're looking for a pub with an atmosphere similar to those found in England, pop into Bloomer's Pub. Located at the base of a pretty, English-style bed and breakfast, it makes an amiable place to enjoy a pint and a round of darts. (San Francisco Chronicle)
* Off with her sisters head Apr 4, 2008
There would also be Derek Jarmans Edward II, a movie that helped usher in the new queer cinema of the early 1990s; Kenneth Branaghs Henry V; perhaps even Al Pacinos docu-homage to Shakespeare and Richard III, Looking for Richard. Certainly, The Other Boleyn Girl, starring Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson as the sisters Boleyn, would fit into this monarchy marathon. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Chicago off to non-traditional start Mar 21, 2008
Up-and-coming Chi director Sean Graney will helm Marlowe's tragedy "Edward II," more formally known as "The Troublesome Reign and Lamentable Death of Edward II, King of England, with the Tragical Fall of Proud Mortimer." Project, to run in the Upstairs Theater Oct. 1-Nov. 9, is being billed as a "promenade staging," with a group of audience members moving about the space with the actors. (Variety)
And the winner is ... Tilda Swinton? Mar 4, 2008
Edward II (1992): Derek Jarman directed Swinton as Isabella, the icy French queen, in this cheeky deconstruction of Christopher Marlowe's play. E-mail Edward Guthmann at. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Tilda Swinton's improbable Oscar journey Mar 1, 2008
"Edward II" (1992) The fourth of Swinton's feature collaborations with Jarman was her best. As lusty, fiery Queen Isabella in this deeply eroticized, sky-lit take on the Marlowe play, she vamps and rages and connives. (Boston Globe)
Mutilated remains may be of king's gay lover Feb 21, 2008
A MUTILATED body found in an English abbey graveyard has been identified as that of a notorious medieval villain rumoured to have been the gay lover of Edward II. ... Sir Hugh had been a favourite of Edward II - who was widely believed to have been homosexual - but was brutally executed before a mob after the king was ousted from the throne. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
The Rocky Horror Show Feb 12, 2008
She has directed Jesus Christ Superstar at London's Lyceum Theatre and The Taming Of The Shrew with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has taken Marlowe's Edward II to Washington and Les Mis. rables to Vienna. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
France is blind to Sarkozy's recklessness Feb 1, 2008
"Such conversations, at present ubiquitous in France, depict a modern democracy at the mercy of an infatuated ruler. The mind ponders Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, Edward II and Gaveston, Antony and Cleopatra. What impact does love have on power? Will there be Reformations, faces launching a thousand ships, "a Roman by a Roman valiantly vanquished"?Bruni is plainly a woman of substance. Italian born but French raised, she is a self-confessed flirt and seductress, free with her lifestyle maxims. "I... (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Further honour for actor McKellen Dec 29, 2007
Homosexuality was implicit in the Edinburgh festival production which made him famous in 1969, Marlowe's Edward II. He performed in a touring production and then again for the BBC.. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
The Naming Game Dec 4, 2007
Think Edward II or George V. Lesser mortals are satisfied with borrowing from the earlier generations - paternal grandfathers or maternal great aunts names or just sticking a Junior and getting done with it. Rich as they are, the poor dears are certainly not so well off in the naming department. (India Times, India)
World without End Oct 15, 2007
They are written back into the record, whether real actors such as Queen Isabella, who deposed her husband, Edward II, or Follett's characters - Caris, Gwenda and the Lady Philippa, forced to marry Ralph but who through suffering will outwit and defeat him. The historical dialectic of World Without End is a well-tried one: the new social and intellectual order tries to supplant the old, whose hold proves tenacious. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Their majesties: Great movie queens Oct 11, 2007
While on the subject of the bizarrely beautiful Orlando, its important to mention Tilda Swinton, the star of that film and the co-star of Derek Jarmans 1991 ACT-UP-demonstration-as-historical-drama, Edward II. She played Queen Isabella, an eccentrically dressed woman out to dispense with her thoroughly unpleasant and even more thoroughly gay husband, King Edward II.. Watch as she practices her crossbow moves on a dead deer carcass while wearing an evening gown, elbow-length... (MSNBC -- Movies)
Obituaries -- Sept. 19, 2007 Oct 4, 2007
Son of Catherine Moore of Greenwich and the late Edward II, he was born June 20, 1953 in Port Chester, N.Y. Mr. Moore was a project manager for Hgn in Wilton, a position he previously held at Pitney Bowes in Stamford and Wilton for 20 years. He was known as the "Blue Knight," a name he earned while attending Saint Mary High School in Greenwich where he co-captained the football and hockey teams. (Huntington Herald, CT)
Reinventing the Wheeldon Sep 23, 2007
Edward II Birmingham Hippodrome, Wed-Sat Darkly epic history-piece by David Bintley for Birmingham Royal Ballet. LECT. (The Observer)
Not doing the time warp again Aug 17, 2007
Edwards, who is directing Marlowe's Edward II for the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington in October, committed to Rocky on the strength of the talent involved. She agrees that a revival without such a heaven-sent cast risked being formulaic and tame. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Our Mary's Princess Isabella Jul 2, 2007
The Queen-Consorts of English Kings Edward II and Richard were both Isabella of France. One lived 1292-1358 whilst the other lived 1389-1409. (Daily Telegraph)
Cheeky history lesson: It's not always good to be king Jun 26, 2007
Before he gets to that point, the smart, tart Paxman takes an idiosyncratic tour of royalty through history: how they got to be royal (the Albanians, in search of a king, ran an ad in a London newspaper), how they give birth (in public before scores of witnesses, so many that Marie-Antoinette fainted from the heat), how they die (a red-hot poker up the posterior for Edward II, tonsillitis for Elizabeth I, off-with-'is-'ead for Charles I). In between, he talks to the cadaverous Albanian... (USA Today -- Life)
Blood of the Irish| Apr 1, 2007
"I got back to Edward II, one of the Plantagenet kings of England. So without any further research, I was able to go back Wiliam the Conqueror. I would have been ecstatic if it would have been my ancestors!". Maureen Conley, a retired teacher from Yorkshire in northern England, has had trouble tracing her family members due to the use of Latin and documents written in indecipherable handwriting. (iAfrica.com)
Shepard, Fugard in ACT lineup Mar 29, 2007
"I think Jacobean drama is very close, in some ways, to our contemporary experience. It grew out of a culture that was less moderate than Shakespeare's, more extreme. The church was exercising a very repressive influence, and so the rebellion against that was very strong. So this is a very sexy play, a very hot world. ... Among other things, it's an incredibly trenchant, very contemporary look at the objectification of women. "These are touchstone plays," she adds, referring to "Malfi" and... (San Francisco Chronicle)
SALLS AMONG ALL-STATE SELECTIONS Mar 28, 2007
Little Falls Times Online - Sports. Wednesday, March 28, 2007. (Little Falls Evening Times, NY)
Hill of a Fight Looming over Bannockburn Mar 18, 2007
This was the moment when Edward II was persuaded to leave the field. " The "reinforcements" were in fact servants, members of the baggage train and men who had joined Bruce's ranks late on. "Others may simply have been locals who wanted to claim they had been a part of such a famous victory," Watson said. "There is no doubt in my mind that this event happened and it would be a great shame if something like this hill, which still represents such an important moment in our history, was lost. (Ocnus.net)
Last stand to lasting fame Mar 11, 2007
He was also helped by the military incompetence of the English king Edward II who rapidly lost the territorial gains made by his father. Whether or not the spider was actually crucial in restoring Scottish honour is debatable. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
D.C.'s Harman Hall opening in fall Mar 6, 2007
In addition, the theater will present George Bernard Shaw's "Major Barbara," Marlowe's "Edward II," Moliere's "The Imaginary Invalid" and Mary Zimmerman's adaptation of "Argonautika.". To meet its new obligations, the theater has increased its budget from the current season's $15. (Variety)
Today in History - Feb. 25 Feb 25, 2007
In 1308, Edward II was crowned King of England. In 1707, Italian playwright Carlo Goldoni was born in Venice. (MSNBC -- Race)
This Day in History Feb 25, 2007
On this date: In 1308, Edward II was crowned King of England. In 1779, American forces led by George Rogers Clark routed the British from Fort Sackville in the Revolutionary War Battle of Vincennes in Indiana. (Montana Standard, MT)
Mint puts grant into 'Darkness' Feb 8, 2007
Other grants from the Tony Randall Theatrical Fund will go to the Red Bull Theater, which gets $10,000 for a fall production of Christopher Marlowe's "Edward II," and $2,500 each for outdoor classics presenter Gorilla Repertory Company and downtown troupe Target Margin Theater. Recipients were selected from more than 45 proposals by a committee of theater pros that included Jed Bernstein, Michael Cerveris, Jack Klugman, Cherry Jones and Marian Seldes. (Variety)
A beheading executed with dignity Jan 6, 2007
It is unfortunate that some of the more successful dispatches of deposed rulers from King Edward II to Benito Mussolini and Nicolae Ceausescu were squalid affairs, carried out with minimal attention to due process of law ... Yet, while Edward II s death sentence was carried out behind closed doors leading to lurid stories about how he came a cropper prints were soon published of the demise of Charles and Louis. (TimesOnline)
