Richard II
Author(s):
William Shakespeare
Company:
London Theatre Company
Richard II is charismatic, eloquent, and loved by his friends. And a disastrous King—dishonest, capricious, and politically incompetent.
Echoing down the centuries is the perennial problem: how to deal with a ruler who has a rock solid right to rule but is set on wrecking the country he leads.
Shakespeare’s subtle, ambiguous, and beautiful play finds feudal England on the cusp of modernity, as a divinely sanctioned monarch is confronted, in the figure of Henry Bolingbroke, by the hard-headed pragmatism of real authority.
