num_pages: 160
description: "I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who understand that these are plays for performance as well as great texts for contemplation." (Patrick Stewart)The distinguished Pelican Shakespeare series, which has sold more than four million copies, is now completely revised and repackaged.Each volume features:* Authoritative, reliable texts* High quality introductions and notes* New, more readable trade trim size* An essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare and essays on Shakespeare's life and the selection of texts
language: English
title: Richard II
titlecomplete: Richard II (The Pelican Shakespeare)
characters: Henry Percy "Hotspur", Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey, John Montagu, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, Joan Holland, Isabella of Valois, Richard II of England, John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, Gardener, Thomas de Berkeley, 5th Baron Berkeley, Eleanor de Bohun, Duchess of Gloucester, Sir Henry Greene, Sir Piers Exton, 1st Lady, Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, Henry V of England, 1st Gardener's Man, William le Scrope, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, King of Mann, 2nd Herald, Edward, 2nd Duke of York, Duke of Aumerle, Sir Stephen Scroop, Walter FitzWalter, 4th (or 5th) Baron FitzWalter, Groom, Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, William de Ros, 6th Baron Ros, William de Colchester, Abbott of Westminster, Lord Marshal, Henry IV of England, Welsh Captain, 2nd Lady, 1st Herald, Edward of Langley, 2nd Duke of York, Thomas Merke, Bishop of Carlisle, Sir Edward Bagot, William Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby de Eresby, Sir William Bushy, Keeper of Pomfret Prison, 2nd Gardener's Man
genres: Classics, Drama, Theatre, Historical, Plays, School, Historical Fiction, Poetry, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 24182
series: Wars of the Roses
publisher: Penguin Classics