Edward II review " intrigue bows to spectacle in RSC's tragic game of thrones
Swan theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonDaniel Raggett's hit-and-miss Marlowe production has wonderful moments but errs on the side of excess in its staging of the king's doomed love affair Edward II's love for Piers Gaveston is not what loses him his throne and life in Christopher Marlowe's 1591 double tragedy (I'll come back to that "double"). The king's homosexuality is defended, though not approved, by one of his stoute…