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Edward II
- Director: Richard Marquand; Toby Robertson
- Writer: Christopher Marlowe
CGiii Comment
At the risk of sounding like a philistine, this is very difficult to take seriously.
Really, watch it for McKellen's hair and codpiece.
Theatrical and hysterical...a tragedy that shouldn't be so funny.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
The reign of Edward II, King of England, is troubled from the start when he brings his male lover, hated by the nobles, out of exile.
Cast & Characters
Ian McKellen as King Edward;
Timothy West as Young Mortimer;
Diane Fletcher as Queen Isabella;
James Laurenson as Piers Gaveston;
Robert Eddison as Lightborn / Archbishop of Canterbury;
Paul Hardwick as Earl of Warwick / Sir John Maltravers;
Trevor Martin as Earl of Lancaster / Rice Ap Howell;
Andrew Crawford as Old Spencer / Third Poor Man;
Peter Bourne as Edmund of Kent;
David Calder as Young Spencer;
David Strong as Robert Baldock;
Michael Spice as Old Mortimer / Sir John of Hainault;
Stephen Greif as Earl of Pembroke;
Colin Fisher as Earl of Arundel;
Richard Morant as Earl of Leicester / Levune