num_pages: 368
description: Richard II is a figure famous in England's national myths - the king who went insane the narcissist the tyrant of Shakespeare's play. History regards his rule either as that of a superhuman monarch or a crazed and vicious ruler. But Richard II was a complex and conflicted man - a person with faults and shortcomings thrust into a role that demanded greatness. In this book Kathryn Warner returns with a biography of Richard II which paints a portrait of the king with all of his strengths and imperfections left in the picture. An aesthete and patron of the arts as well as a person troubled by a much-maligned 'personality disorder' Richard II here emerges from behind the mask of a theatrical character.
language: English
title: Richard II: King of England 1377 - 1399: A True King's Fall
publisher: Amberley Publishing