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Character
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act Five, Scene One
Time & Place
England, 1320s, prison, Kenilworth Castle
Length
Medium
Time Period
Classical
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)
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Context
King Edward II has proven himself an ineffective
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Ah, Leicester, weigh how hardly I can brook
To lose my crown and kingdom without cause;
To give ambitious Mortimer my right,
That, like a mountain, overwhelms my bliss;
In which extreme my mind here murder'd is!
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Annotated full text of Edward II: http://elizabethandrama.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Edward-II-Annotated.pdf
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