Edward the Second
by Christopher Marlowe
directed by Mike Schneider
Performed at The Adobe Theater in 2000
Edward II, depicted in Cassell's History of England, published circa 1902
"Base Fortune, now I see, that in thy wheel
There is a point, to which when men aspire,
They tumble headlong down. That point I touched,
And, seeing there was no place to mount up higher,
Why should I grieve at my declining fall?"
Mortimer to Isabella, Act 5, Scene 6