Richard II is one of Shakespeare's finest works: lucid, eloquent, and boldly structured.
A new biography re-examining the complex and fascinating king, whose very humanity saw him deposed from his divine role.
Richard II is one of Shakespeare's finest works: lucid, eloquent, and boldly structured.
The play spans only the last two years of Richard's life, from 1398 to 1400.
A new biography re-examining the complex and fascinating king, whose very humanity saw him deposed from his divine role.
Richard II is one of Shakespeare's finest works: lucid, eloquent, and boldly structured.
Read & Co. Classics presents this new beautiful edition of William Shakespeare's play, "Richard II". This edition features a specially commissioned new biography of William Shakespeare.
"Includes detailed explanatory notes"--Spine.
King 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...
Richard II: An Annotated Bibliography
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 ...
"A quite wonderful ideaSo blindingly obvious, I can't understand why nobody had thought of it before. I will certainly use the texts myself."-- Sir Peter Hall
Richard II - William Shakespeare - The sensitive and poetic Richard II is undoubtedly the rightful king of England, but he is unscrupulous and weak.
7 Michael Saenger, Shakespeare and the French Borders of English (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), 96; Grandage, 'Imagining England', 127; Willy Maley and Margaret Tudeau-Clayton, 'Introduction: “To England send him”: ...
... grave! A little little grave, an obscure grave!— his religious appeal in the last reserve, with its bold reference to the judgment of Pilate, as he thinks once more of his "anointing." And as it happens with children he attains ...
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.
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, ...
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 ...
It is based on the life of King Richard II of England (ruled 1377-1399) and is the first part of a tetralogy, referred to by some scholars as the Henriad, followed by three plays concerning Richard's successors: Henry IV, Part 1; Henry IV, ...
It is also a work of epic lyricism, filled with some of Shakespeare's most intoxicating poetry. Used and Recommended by the National Theatre General Editor Stanley Wells Edited by Stanley Wells Introduction by Paul Edmondson