Characters
Daughter of the French King.
Who is Queen Isabella?
Edward gives this up when he goes to prison.
What is the crown?
Edward plans this in joy at Gaveston's return.
What is a tournament?
"My heart is as an anvil unto sorrow, Which beats upon it like the Cyclops' hammers[.]" (Act 1, Scene 4, 480-481)
What is a simile?
The one directly responsible for Gaveston's death?
Who is Warwick?
Edward makes this character his chief councillor.
Who is Warwick?
Gaveston is depicted as this animal throughout the play.
What is a flying fish?
Kent intends to travel to this place.
What is France?
"A ranker rout of rebels never was." (Act III, Scene II, 208)
What is an alliteration?
The King's niece receives a love letter from this person.
Who is Gaveston?
Who is Edward?
Edward represents his assertion of power over his people with this.
What is the sun?
The place where Gaveston lands on his second return from exile.
What is Tynemouth?
"Anger and wrathful fury stops my speech." (Act I, Scene IV, 74)
What is a personification?
Young Spencer orders Levune to deliver gold here.
What is France?
The only noble to speak out on the King's side during the first confrontation.
Who is Kent?
These are used to show that Gaveston is too ambitious and to show that Young Mortimer and Edward have authority and are reliable to the people.
What are trees?
These are the types of man Gaveston plans to use to make the king do anything he (Gaveston) wants.
Hint: There are two
What are poets and musicians?
"Sometime a lovely boy in Dian's shape... One like Actaeon peeping through the grove[.]" (Act I, Scene I, 79-85)
What is an allusion?
Young Mortimer arranges horses for Lightborn at points that are each this many miles apart.
What is 10 (ten)?
This noble is consigned to the Tower by Edward.
Who is Young Mortimer?
Edward is killed by this man whose name quite literally translates to Lucifer.
Who is Lightborn?
According to Baldock, all men live because of this.
What is death?
The play starts and ends with one king dying and the throne being passed onto his son.
Hint: There's a certain name for something like this.
What is parallelism?
The pet name Gaveston uses for King Edward.