description: Our Signet Classic Shakespeare Series was extensively revised in 1998. We offer the best of everything -- unforgettable works edited by eminent Shakespeare scholars, comprehensive notes on the text, an essay on Shakespeare's life and times, source material, critical commentaries, extensive bibliographies, and footnotes. And there's more-- Grow with the times by including both historical and thoroughly contemporary critical commentary on such issues as feminist, political, and theatrical interpretations of the plays -- with recent full-length essays by such respected scholars as Frank Kermode, Carolyn Heilbrun, Michael Goldman, Linda Bamber, and many others.-- Provide more bibliographic listings and more up-to-date and relevant listings of pertinent books and articles in the Suggested Reference Section than the competition offers.-- Feature essays on the Performance or Stage History of each play, written by Sylvan Barnet.
language: English
title: Richard II
titlecomplete: Richard II
characters: Sir Henry Greene, Isabella of Valois, 1st Herald, William de Ros, 6th Baron Ros, John Montagu, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, Thomas de Berkeley, 5th Baron Berkeley, William de Colchester, Abbott of Westminster, Eleanor de Bohun, Duchess of Gloucester, Walter FitzWalter, 4th (or 5th) Baron FitzWalter, Richard II of England, William le Scrope, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, King of Mann, Lord Marshal, Sir Stephen Scroop, Henry Percy "Hotspur", Groom, 1st Gardener's Man, Henry IV of England, Edward of Langley, 2nd Duke of York, Sir Edward Bagot, Keeper of Pomfret Prison, Sir Piers Exton, 2nd Herald, Gardener, 1st Lady, John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, William Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby de Eresby, Thomas Merke, Bishop of Carlisle, 2nd Lady, Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey, Joan Holland, Edward, 2nd Duke of York, Duke of Aumerle, Welsh Captain, Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, Henry V of England, 2nd Gardener's Man, Sir William Bushy
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, Historical, Poetry, Drama, School, Literature, Classics, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 24174
series: Wars of the Roses
publisher: Bt Bound