ince, I come!' (I.1.4-6)
             He is obviously using the king to further his position. Gaveston is mocked by the nobility of Edward's court repeatedly for his common background. They see his influence on the king as extremely problematic. Lancaster asks Edward:
             My lord, why do you thus incense your peers
             That naturally would love and honour you
             But for that base and obscure Gaveston? (I.1.98-100)
             This visible resentment from the Nobles shows their desire of his death. The difference in the language used in these two quotes emphasises the conflicting interests within the court. Queen Isabella also, portrays another form of desire.
             Isabella feels neglected by Edward, her husband, because of this love he openly shows for Gaveston, she goes on to express her feelings, 'And yet he'll ever dote on Gaveston/ And so am I for ever miserable,' (1.4.184-185) this melancholy speech conveys her distress and wanting desire for her husband to dote on her in the same way. In Niccolo Macheivelli's The Prince, he interprets this as 'I think it may be true that fortune is the mistress of one half or our actions; but yet that she lets us have rule of the other, or little less'(Writing And The English renaissance 1996 p308). Accordingly, Macheivelli is saying that Isabella should take control of her actions as she has the ability to do so. Which seems bizarre, as towards the last act when Isabella is involved with the scheme to overthrow Edward, she still seems to show an irrepressible desire to 'ease his grief' and save his 'poor soul' (V.2.26). This is extraordinary as by this point in the play Isabella is having an affair with the disloyal younger Mortimer. This then suggests heterosexual desire the younger Mortimer says, 'fair Isabel, now we have our desire' (V.2.1). This quote however could have two meanings: firstly Mortimer could be acknowledging the fact that he h...