The classic tragedy about the downfall of King Richard II is presented with critical commentary and historical background
Bushy, Bagot, Russell and Green, the leading members of the group, were in every sense the political ancestors of Henry VII's Empson and Dudley; and Bushy and Green, indeed, were to meet with the same grisly fate as Empson and Dudley.
This book offers a radical reinterpretation of Richard II. Nigel Saul paints a picture of the King as a highly assertive and determined ruler, one whose key aim was to exalt the crown.
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The classic tragedy about the downfall of King Richard II is presented with critical commentary and historical background
Final play in Shakespeare's masterly dramatization of the struggle for power between the Houses of York and Lancaster.
This collection provides a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the critical and theatrical history of the play. The substantial introduction surveys the history of critical interpretations of Richard II since the eighteenth century.
A new biography re-examining the complex and fascinating king, whose very humanity saw him deposed from his divine role.
A new balanced portrait of one of the most important and controversial of the medieval Plantagenet sovereigns.
This book is an edition of eight late-fourteenth- and early-fifteenth-century Latin texts that chronicle and/or comment upon events that led, in 1399, to the deposition of King Richard II.
Richard II is one of Shakespeare's finest works: lucid, eloquent, and boldly structured.