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==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==
  
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Marlowe's play adapted by Belgian playwright Tom Lanoye (written in Dutch) in 2017 and as ''[[De felomstreden kroon van Edward II and Gaveston]]''. This play subsequently translated into Afrikaans by [[Marthinus Basson]] as ''[[Die Fel Omstrede Kroon van Edward II en Gaveston]]'' (“The Fiercely Contested Crown of Edward II and Gaveston”).
  
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==

Revision as of 13:40, 11 July 2025

Edward II by Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)

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Translations and adaptations

Marlowe's play adapted by Belgian playwright Tom Lanoye (written in Dutch) in 2017 and as De felomstreden kroon van Edward II and Gaveston. This play subsequently translated into Afrikaans by Marthinus Basson as Die Fel Omstrede Kroon van Edward II en Gaveston (“The Fiercely Contested Crown of Edward II and Gaveston”).

Performance history in South Africa

1981: Presented by John Badenhorst and John Caviggia at the People's Space Theatre in September/October 1981. Directed by John Badenhorst and designed by John Caviggia, the play starred John Caviggia as Edward II, Merle Lifson, Alan Murchison, John Dennison, Rupert Wainwright*, Jochen Noetzelmann*, Johann van der Merwe and José Neto. This production was a version by John Caviggia after the play by Christopher Marlowe with additional material by William Shakespeare, Edward Campion, Richard Barnfield, Denys Sanguin de Saint-Pavin, John Webster, Michelangelo Buonarotti, Walter Raleigh, William d'Avenant, James Shirley, Edmund Spenser, John Beaumont and John Fletcher.

(* appeared by arrangement with Fragile Theatre Frankfurt/London).

1993: Directed by David Alcock for Rhodes University Drama Department.

Sources

Theatre programme, 1981.

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