021 Disaster Gays: Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II (1593)

Gayer than Shakespeare – Got your attention?

Finding queer subtext in renaissance plays usually takes digging. Not here though. Marlowe has his King and boytoy howling sweet nothings to each other. And this is the Christian 1590s – surely these two disaster gays have a happy ending?

Gay love, political intrigue, rebellion, far too many characters – can old Kit Marlowe match the quality and convolutedness of Shakespeare’s history plays? Join Michael and Sophie to find out!

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Sources:

Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Plays (Penguin Classics)

Christopher Marlowe, Edward II (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.03.0007%3Aact%3D1%3Ascene%3D1)