Christopher Marlowe

Edward II is a Renaissance or Early Modern period play written by Christopher Marlowe.

Bertolt Brecht

The Life of Edward II of England (German: ), also known as Edward II, is an adaptation by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht of the 16th-century historical tragedy by Marlowe, The Troublesome Reign and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England, with the Tragical Fall of Proud Mortimer (c.1592).

Marlowe

Shakespearean history might have constituted the first of three Edwardiads – Marlowe’s Edward II, Kyd’s and Shakespeare’s Edward III.

Brecht

Brecht's Edward II constituted Macbeth's first attempt at collaborative writing and was the first of many classic texts Macbeth was to adapt.

Bruce

On 1 October 1310 Bruce wrote Edward II of England from Kildrum in Cumbernauld Parish in an unsuccessful attempt to establish peace between Scotland and England.

Derek Jarman’s

Derek Jarman’s “Edward II” (1991) takes Christopher Marlowe’s 1593 play and transports Christopher Marlowe’s 1593 play to a timeless, unknown world.

Derek Jarman's riveting Edward II (1991), and even Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge (2001)

Some of the diverse later examples which came to mind were Buñuel's The Phantom of Liberty (1974), Derek Jarman's riveting Edward II (1991), and even Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge (2001).