King Richard II

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King Richard II
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Poetry & Plays

King Richard II

William Shakespeare
Edition year 1958
Binding Series
Illustrator Loudon Sainthill
Weight 0.75 Kg
Pages 116
Dimensions 22.4 × 17.2 cm

Edition details

King Richard II by William Shakespeare, introduction by Sir John Gielgud, eight leaves of colour designs by Loudon Sainthill. Blue series binding. White dust-jacket printed in blue and black. 22.4 x 17.2 cm. 116 pp.

About the book

William Shakespeare's Richard II dramatises the downfall of King Richard II and the rise of Henry Bolingbroke, the future Henry IV. Richard's decision to exile Bolingbroke and seize his inheritance contributes to growing opposition to the king and eventually triggers a challenge to his authority. As Richard loses his crown and confronts the collapse of his identity as monarch, Shakespeare explores kingship, legitimacy, rebellion and the nature of political power. The play contains some of Shakespeare's most lyrical writing and forms an important beginning to his sequence of English history plays.

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