Olivier; Royal Court, LondonThe time is vividly out of joint in the National's affecting Edward IIChristopher Marlowe's Edward II (1594), one of the earliest English history plays, is dominated by the homosexual love between the king and the charismatic commoner Piers Gaveston, a love not countenanced by Edward's entourage. The writing has an ecstatic eroticism and the plot a non-stop volatility, a fatal momentum. Di…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM on September 7, 2013