A new biography re-examining the complex and fascinating king, whose very humanity saw him deposed from his divine role.
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.
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.
The authoritative edition of Richard II from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, includes: -The exact text of the printed book for easy cross-reference -Hundreds ...
King Richard the Second is a history play William Shakespeare believed to be written in approximately 1595.
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.
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, ...
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The Life and Death of King Richard the Second, commonly called Richard II, is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in approximately 1595...........
It is based on the life of King Richard II of England and is the first part of a tetralogy, referred to by scholars as the Henriad, followed by three plays concerning Richard's successors: Henry IV, part 1, Henry IV, part 2, and Henry V. It ...