Written c Licensed for publication July 1593

Act II. Scene V Pembroke: I will upon mine honour undertake To carry him and bring him back again Act III. Scene I Enter Gaveston mourning, and the Earl of Pembroke’s Men

Edward Alleyn ( ) Performed Tamburlaine in Tamburlaine Great, Faustus in Doctor Faustus, Barabas in The Jew of Malta, and the Duke of Guise in The Massacre at Paris

Pembroke’s Men December 1592 – paid for a performance at court January 1593 – paid for another performance at court August 1593 – return to London, apparently bankrupt

Edward II Act V Scene I Continue ever, thou celestial sun; Let never silent night possess this clime; Stand still, you watches of the element; And times and seasons, rest you at a stay, That Edward may be still fair England’s king Dr Faustus Act V, Scene ii (A Text) Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven, That time may cease and midnight never come! 60-61

Act II Scene II My swelling heart for very anger breaks. How have I been baited by these peers, And dare not be revenged, for their power is great! Yet shall the crowing of the cockrels Affright a lion? Edward, unfold thy paws, And let their lives’ blood slake thy fury’s hunger. If I be cruel and grow tyrannous, Now let them thank themselves, and rue too late ( )

Poor Gaveston, that hast no friend but me. Do what they can, we’ll live in Tynemouth here, And so I walk with him about the walls, What care I though the earls begirt us round? (II.ii ) Make several kingdoms of this monarchy And share it equally amongst you all, So I may have some nook or corner left To frolic with my dearest Gaveston. (I.iv )

Holinshed, The First and Second Volumes of Chronicles (1587)

Holinshed on James VI of Scotland James has let himself be “obscured by the craft & subtiltie of some lewd and wicked persons of no desert or woorthinesse, and for the most part of base lineage, not born to one foot breadth of land” Esme Stuart, First Duke of Lennox

Uncle, his wanton humour grieves not me But this I scorn, that one so basely born Should by his sovereign’s favour grow so pert And riot it with the treasure of the realm. (Act I. Scene iv, ll )

Edward the Second, Second Quarto (1598)

Edward the Second, Third Quarto (1612)

Edward the Second, Fourth Quarto (1622) – note the mention of a revival by “the late Queenes Majesties Servants at the Red Bull”