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.
Andrew Gurr has added a new section to the Introduction of this updated edition in which he describes the growing interest in new historical and political analysis of the play.
... of Aumerle Paul Venables John of Gaunt Brewster Mason Thomas Mowbray Richard Moore Henry Bolingbroke Michael Kitchen Queen Imogen Stubbs Duchess of York Rosalind Boxall Henry Percy ( Hotspur ) Nathaniel Duke of York Bernard Horsfall ...
... the Duke of Norfolk of high treason and closes with the murder of the deposed King. SOURCES OF THE PLAY Holinshed's Chronicles Shakespeare's primary source of Richard II is Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland.
This edition of 'King Richard II' provides a clear and authoritative text, edited to the highest standards of scholarship, and includes an in-depth survey of critical approaches to the play.
A new balanced portrait of one of the most important and controversial of the medieval Plantagenet sovereigns.
[3] Simon Forman (1552-1611), astrologer and quack-doctor, was a genuine Elizabethan eccentric, who claimed occult powers and miraculous cures, and whose sexual life seems to have been unusually promiscuous. Frances Howard, Countess of ...
This richly annotated edition takes a fresh look at the first part of Shakespeare's second tetralogy of history plays, showing how it relates to the other plays in the sequence.
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King Richard the Second is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in approximately 1595.
King Richard the Second is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in approximately 1595.
A history play by William Shakespeare believed based on the life of King Richard II of England (ruled 1377-1399).
Although the First Folio (1623) edition of Shakespeare's works lists the play as a history play, the earlier Quarto edition of 1597 calls it The tragedie of King Richard the second.