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1. www.folger.edu › richard-ii › readRichard II - Entire Play | Folger Shakespeare Library

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   Jul 31, 2015 · In Richard II, anger at a king’s arbitrary rule leads to his downfall—and sets in motion a decades-long struggle for the crown that continues in several more history plays. Richard II begins as Richard’s cousin, Henry Bolingbroke, charges Thomas Mowbray with serious crimes, including the murder of the Duke of Gloucester.

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   Based on the life of King Richard II of England (ruled 1377–1399), it chronicles his downfall and the machinations of his nobles. It is the first part of a tetralogy, referred to by some scholars as the Henriad, followed by three plays about Richard's successors: Henry IV, Part 1; Henry IV, Part 2; and Henry V .

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4. shakespeare.mit.edu › richardii › fullRichard II: Entire Play - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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   The Life and Death of Richard the Second. | | Entire play. ACT I. SCENE I. London. KING RICHARD II's palace. Enter KING RICHARD II, JOHN OF GAUNT, with other Nobles and Attendants. KING RICHARD II. Old John of Gaunt, time-honour'd Lancaster, Hast thou, according to thy oath and band, Brought hither Henry Hereford thy bold son, Here to make good ...

5. www.folger.edu › explore › shakespeares-worksRichard II | Folger Shakespeare Library

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   Sep 11, 2020 · The Folger edition of the play follows Q1, except for the deposition scene, which it supplies from F1. Read and download Richard II for free. Learn about this Shakespeare play, find scene-by-scene summaries, and discover more Folger resources.

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   What is Richard II about?

   • It is the first of four plays about the historical rise of the English royal House of Lancaster. King Richard’s deeply poetic and metaphysical musings on the nature of kingship and identity mark a new direction for Shakespeare, and much of Richard II reads like a run-up to the more fully developed intellectualizing found in Hamlet.

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   Why is Richard II written in verse?

   • This line affords Richard absolution and cements this play's place among Shakespeare's tragedies. Unusually for Shakespeare, Richard II is written entirely in verse, one of only four of his plays that are, the others being King John and the first and third parts of Henry VI.

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   What happens in Richard II?

   • In Richard II, anger at a king’s arbitrary rule leads to his downfall—and sets in motion a decades-long struggle for the crown that continues in several more history plays. Richard II begins as Richard’s cousin, Henry Bolingbroke, charges Thomas Mowbray with serious crimes, including the murder of the Duke of Gloucester.

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   Does Richard II have a prose?

   • Unusually for Shakespeare, Richard II is written entirely in verse, one of only four of his plays that are, the others being King John and the first and third parts of Henry VI. It thus contains no prose. There are also great differences in the characters' use of language.

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7. www.britannica.com › topic › Richard-II-by-ShakespeareRichard II | Summary, Characters, & Facts | Britannica

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   Richard II, chronicle play in five acts by William Shakespeare, written in 1595–96 and published in a quarto edition in 1597 and in the First Folio. The play is the first in a sequence of four history plays known collectively as the ‘second tetralogy.’

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8. www.sparknotes.com › shakespeare › richardiiRichard II: Full Book Summary | SparkNotes

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   Richard II, written around 1595, is the first play in Shakespeare’s second “history tetralogy,” a series of four plays that chronicles the rise of the house of Lancaster to the British throne. Its sequel plays are Henry IV, Part 1 ; Henry IV, Part 2 ; and Henry V .

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10. www.sparknotes.com › shakespeare › richardiiRichard II: Study Guide | SparkNotes

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    Probably written around 1595, Richard II is one of Shakespeare ’s history plays. It is the first of four plays about the historical rise of the English royal House of Lancaster. King Richard’s deeply poetic and metaphysical musings on the nature of kingship and identity mark a new direction for Shakespeare, and much of Richard II reads like ...