The life and death of King Richard the Second
Series: Shakespeare and the stage -- reel 35, 2d Folio Covent Garden
Publisher: Printed by Tho. Cotes
Published: 1632
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [microform]
Number of pages: 77
Subjects: Stage history; Drama; Promptbooks
Other titles: King Richard the Second; King Richard the Second
Work titles: King Richard II
Notes: Preparation copy.

Caption title.

Transcription by John Roberts of the Covent Garden 1738 production.

Contains large sketches of the combat scene and the parliament scene.

Pasted in at beginning is a playbill for Drury-Lane (Oct. 23, 1815) with Kean as Richard II and a colored print of Kean as Richard (published June 26, 1815).

Also pasted in are reproductions of the Shakespeare arms and signatures and of scenes in Stratford.

Theodosius Purland (who put the book in its present form in 1847) - "Boone" - J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps - Warwick Castle library copy.

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