Describe symbolism in Edward II: The Troublesome Reign and Lamentable End of Edward the Second, King of England, with the Tragical Fall of Proud Mortimer by Christopher Marlowe

When the Bishop of Coventry angers Edward for having signed the order banishing Gaveston from court the first time, Edward punishes him by stripping away his vestments. A priest's vestments hold symbolic importance, and to lay hands upon them is a form of sacrilege that to the Bishop of Canterbury, as well as Elizabethan audiences, represents an act of violence against the Church itself.