Learn more about Nicholas Hytner’s hit production starring Jonathan Bailey and plan your Richard II play London trip ...

In Arise, England, Burt and ­Partington, both leading historians at the University of Cambridge, offer us biographies of six Plantagenet kings, from John to Richard II, charting the “emergence ...

Richard II and Henry IV were first cousins, born in 1367 just three months apart. They were ten years old when Richard became king of England. They were 32 when, in 1399, Henry overthrew him to become ...

Why stage Richard II in 2025? Perhaps, post-Brexit, because it kicks off Shakespeare’s eight-play retelling of the Wars of the Roses, a conflict which saw England so riven with internal division that ...

By Houman Barekat Reviewing from London The Bridge Theater is within walking distance of the Tower of London, where in 1399 King Richard II was imprisoned and forced to abdicate England’s throne ...

The Latin inscription around the ledge of the tomb can be translated: Sage and elegant, lawfully Richard II, conquered by fate he lies here ... the arms of Edward the Confessor impaling France and ...

OK, that’s the wrong play since it’s a line from “Macbeth,” but it best sums up Jonathan Bailey’s performance in the new London production of “Richard II”: The actor cranks up ...

Richard II and the Crisis of Authority - In June 1381, in southern England, peasant anger at their low status in society spilled over into violent rebellion. Lollards by Dr Mike Ibeji ...

One of the most challenging leading roles in Shakespeare, Richard II must appear both insipid and compelling, a man who suspects he is not quite up to the task of kingship but can’t admit it.