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Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)
Genders
  • Female: 1
  • Male: 1
Style
Dramatic
Length
Medium
Time Period
Contemporary
Time/Place
Medieval England, battle encampment, early morning
Act/Scene
Act One, Scene Eighteen

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ANNE (alone) : Since Edward of England, not hearing either prayer

Or urgent appeal, drove me to Mortimer

The cold of heart, I'll put on widow's weeds.

Four times I let my hair be spat upon

By him, and I preferred to stand bareheaded

Beneath the sky, not veiled as now.

[... … …]

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MORTIMER: Heap earth on Edward of England!

ANNE: Heap earth upon Edward Gloster!

MORTIMER: Now: to Scotland!

ANNE: Woe to us, Mortimer! There now shall be

A war that hurls this island in the sea!

Bertolt Brecht, Edward II, Trans. Eric Bentley. Grove Press, 1966. pp. 44-46

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