num_pages: 252
description: To Shakespeare's contemporaries Richard II was a balanced dramatisation of the central political and constitutional issue of the time: how to cope with an unjust ruler. But over the last century or so, the play has come to be regarded as the poetic fall of a tragic hero. The Introduction to this edition provides a full context for both the Shakespearean and the modern views of the King Richard's fall.For this updated edition, Andrew Gurr has added a new section to the Introduction which takes account of the number of important professional theatre productions and the large output of scholarly criticism on the play which have appeared in recent years. The Reading List has also been revised and augmented.
language: English
title: King Richard II
titlecomplete: King Richard II (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
characters: Thomas Merke, Bishop of Carlisle, 2nd Gardener's Man, William le Scrope, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, King of Mann, Joan Holland, Sir William Bushy, 1st Lady, Henry Percy "Hotspur", Henry IV of England, Henry V of England, Edward of Langley, 2nd Duke of York, 1st Gardener's Man, Sir Piers Exton, Isabella of Valois, Keeper of Pomfret Prison, Groom, Edward, 2nd Duke of York, Duke of Aumerle, 2nd Lady, Walter FitzWalter, 4th (or 5th) Baron FitzWalter, John Montagu, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, Thomas de Berkeley, 5th Baron Berkeley, Lord Marshal, Gardener, Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, William Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby de Eresby, Sir Edward Bagot, Eleanor de Bohun, Duchess of Gloucester, 2nd Herald, John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, Richard II of England, Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey, Welsh Captain, William de Colchester, Abbott of Westminster, William de Ros, 6th Baron Ros, Sir Stephen Scroop, Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, 1st Herald, Sir Henry Greene
genres: Historical Fiction, Theatre, Historical, School, Drama, Plays, Poetry, Literature, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 24174
series: Wars of the Roses
publisher: Cambridge University Press