description: Shakespeare's history play reimagined by Naomi Iizuka.Following the events of the final two years of his life, Richard II interrogates royal power and the forces that threaten it. After banishing his cousin Henry Bolingbroke, Richard begins to lose grip of his throne and strives to find meaning in the churn and chaos of the events unfolding around him. In her new translation, Naomi Iizuka ventures into the mystery of the work, scraping away the layers of received wisdom and cracking the play open for contemporary audiences.This translation of Richard II was written as part of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Play On! project, which commissioned new translations of thirty-nine Shakespeare plays. These translations present work from "The Bard" in language accessible to modern audiences while never losing the beauty of Shakespeare's verse. Enlisting the talents of a diverse group of contemporary playwrights, screenwriters, and dramaturges from diverse backgrounds, this project reenvisions Shakespeare for the twenty-first century. These volumes make these works available for the first time in print--a new First Folio for a new era.
language: English
title: Richard II
titlecomplete: Richard II (Shakespeare, Signet Classic)
characters: Edward of Langley, 2nd Duke of York, Sir Edward Bagot, Eleanor de Bohun, Duchess of Gloucester, 2nd Lady, 1st Lady, Henry Percy "Hotspur", Sir Henry Greene, Groom, William de Ros, 6th Baron Ros, Sir Piers Exton, John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey, 2nd Gardener's Man, William le Scrope, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, King of Mann, 1st Herald, Edward, 2nd Duke of York, Duke of Aumerle, 2nd Herald, Lord Marshal, Thomas de Berkeley, 5th Baron Berkeley, John Montagu, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, Sir William Bushy, Keeper of Pomfret Prison, Isabella of Valois, Thomas Merke, Bishop of Carlisle, William de Colchester, Abbott of Westminster, William Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby de Eresby, Henry V of England, Richard II of England, Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, Walter FitzWalter, 4th (or 5th) Baron FitzWalter, 1st Gardener's Man, Gardener, Sir Stephen Scroop, Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, Joan Holland, Welsh Captain, Henry IV of England
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, Classics, Drama, Historical, Historical Fiction, Literature, Poetry, School
ratings_count: 24174
series: Wars of the Roses
publisher: Signet Classics