tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19545049.post115478983933564092..comments2024-03-14T05:56:44.390+00:00Comments on Edward II: Review of Marlowe's 'Edward II'Kathryn Warnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00397714441908100576noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19545049.post-1155806968644802982006-08-17T10:29:00.000+01:002006-08-17T10:29:00.000+01:00Hi Eric, thanks for commenting! That's such a coi...Hi Eric, thanks for commenting! That's such a coincidence, because I've just noticed your blog, too - specifically, the post on Despenser's execution. Very interesting about the Fair Maid of Kent!<BR/><BR/>I'm intending to write a couple of posts on Edward's 'murder' - have been for a while. Isabella was certainly a strong character, and a very clever woman, too. However, you can probably guess from the name of the blog that I'm more sympathetic to Edward than I am to her. :) In the archives (March or April) I wrote two posts on Weir's bio of Isabella. I enjoyed it, but it's terribly biased and not always very accurate.<BR/><BR/>Carla: I'm sure the number of English-speaking people who would watch a play in anything but English is vanishingly small...unfortunately.Kathryn Warnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00397714441908100576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19545049.post-1155746023109411102006-08-16T17:33:00.000+01:002006-08-16T17:33:00.000+01:00And by the way, I was born 600 years to the day af...And by the way, I was born 600 years to the day after the Fair Maid of Kent, and my youngest son was born 600 years to the day after her death.<BR/><BR/>Mit freundlichen GrĂ¼ssen,<BR/><BR/>ErichEric Aveburyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14798868875167454423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19545049.post-1155745574740089982006-08-16T17:26:00.000+01:002006-08-16T17:26:00.000+01:00I'm one of the millions of descendants of Edward I...I'm one of the millions of descendants of Edward III, also a descendant of Alianore Holland daughter of Thomas 2nd Earl of Kent and granddaughter of the Fair Maid of Kent.<BR/><BR/>I don't read novels, but am convinced by Mortimer's The Greatest Traitor and Alison Weir's Isabella that Edward II wasn't murdered. Also, that Isabella was a woman of amazing strength of character to put up with endless insults and ill-treatment from Edward without letting him see that she was planning to get her own back.<BR/><BR/>See my blogspot ericaveburyEric Aveburyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14798868875167454423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19545049.post-1155561142548915122006-08-14T14:12:00.000+01:002006-08-14T14:12:00.000+01:00That is amazing - and humbling! How many Brits wo...That is amazing - and humbling! How many Brits would go to see a play in German or French, I wonder?Carlahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11901028520813891575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19545049.post-1155411656852155212006-08-12T20:40:00.000+01:002006-08-12T20:40:00.000+01:00I agree it's pretty strange, Carla. Having said t...I agree it's pretty strange, Carla. Having said that, I was surprised by the audience; I'd assumed most of them would be English-speaking expats, but they weren't. Amazing how many Germans went to see a sixteenth-century play in English! ;)Kathryn Warnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00397714441908100576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19545049.post-1155392519097358382006-08-12T15:21:00.000+01:002006-08-12T15:21:00.000+01:00Queen Isabella table-dancing in a gold bikini woul...Queen Isabella table-dancing in a gold bikini would tend to ring my alarm bells (!), but from your review it seems that the production worked pretty well. Modern costumes and a minimal set do mean that if the acting is good there's nothing to detract from it (and, conversely, nothing to distract from it if it's bad :-)). How strange that it isn't touring outside Germany; I'd have thought Edward II would have been a minority interest there.Carlahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11901028520813891575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19545049.post-1155211268213727292006-08-10T13:01:00.000+01:002006-08-10T13:01:00.000+01:00I used to feel the same way, Gabriele! I still do...I used to feel the same way, Gabriele! I still do, to a point - I loved this because it was about Edward II, but another very modern adaptation might not be my cup of tea either!Kathryn Warnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00397714441908100576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19545049.post-1155042365399310022006-08-08T14:06:00.000+01:002006-08-08T14:06:00.000+01:00Don't think that would be my cup of tea. Tap danci...Don't think that would be my cup of tea. Tap dancing Isabella in a leotard? Nay. I admit, my taste in play performances is very conservative, and I've almost given up seing operas on stage because of the abysmal, overly symbolic realisations in fashion nowadays.Gabriele Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17205770868139083575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19545049.post-1154914320747070072006-08-07T02:32:00.000+01:002006-08-07T02:32:00.000+01:00I would have loved to see the Globe production a f...I would have loved to see the Globe production a few years ago with John McEnery as Lightborn. Pity one can't get these performances on tape.Susan Higginbothamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13517907583894026599noreply@blogger.com