num_pages: 172
description: The sensitive and poetic Richard II is undoubtedly the rightful king of England but he is unscrupulous and weak, and when his cousin Henry Bolingbroke returns from banishment and mounts a challenge to his authority, Richard's right to the throne proves of little help to him in a full-cast dramatization of the play.
language: English
title: Richard II
titlecomplete: Richard II
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: 24179
series: Wars of the Roses
publisher: Audio Partners