Before 1790, the criticism of Richard II is fragmentary and this volume takes up the major tradition of criticism, including Malone, Lamb, Coleridge, Hazlitt, Chambers, Boas, Brandes, Yeats, Schelling, Swinburne, A.C. Bradley, Saintsbury, and Masefield.
Bullough, Narrative and Dramatie S ourees, III, gives substantial excerpts and a summary of the omitted sections. This text corrects some minor errors in Bullough and adds a number of stanzas which Bullough omits.
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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.
When King Richard II banishes two feuding noblemen from England, he sets into motion a series of events that will eventually cost him his crown and his life.
Richard II had a dramatic kingship. This text, written by leading historians, aims to re-evaluate the much-maligned figure.
King Richard the Second is a history play William Shakespeare believed to be written in approximately 1595.
A new biography re-examining the complex and fascinating king, whose very humanity saw him deposed from his divine role.
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