Andrew Gurr has added a new section to the Introduction of this updated edition in which he describes the growing interest in new historical and political analysis of the play. He also surveys a number of important professional theatre productions and guides the reader through scholarly criticism of recent years. The Reading List has been revised and augmented. First Edition Hb (1984): 0-521-23010-1 First Edition Pb (1984): 0-521-29765-6
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"Gurr's account is hard-headed and scholarly, very deftly interweaving comment on the play's action with discussion of contemporary political events...thorough, scholarly and continuously helpful." The Times Higher Education Supplement
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'Gurr's account is hard-headed and scholarly, very deftly interweaving comment on the play's action with discussion of contemporary political events thorough, scholarly and continuously helpful.'The Times Higher Education SupplementFor this updated edition Gurr has added a new section to the Introduction in which he describes the growing interest in re-historicising and repoliticising the play, surveys a number of important professional theatre productions and guides the reader through the scholarly criticism of recent years. The Reading List has also been revised and augmented.
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King Richard II was written in 1595 as the initial play in a sequence planned as three or four plays about the Lancastrian phase of English history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Duchess of Gloucester, Duke of Norfolk, Flint Castle, Duke of York, Earl of Wiltshire, John of Gaunt, Black Prince, Charles Kean, Duke of Herford, Thomas Mowbray, Chamberlain's Men, Lord Aumerle, Roger Mortimer, Harry Percy, King John, Lord Marshal, Matthew Law, Shakespeare's Richard, Westminster Abbey, Earl of Essex, John Barton, Master of the Revels, Richard of Bordeaux, Duke of Gloucester, England's Parnassus New!
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King Richard II was written in 1595 as the initial play in a sequence planned as three or four plays about the Lancastrian phase of English history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Duchess of Gloucester, Duke of Norfolk, Flint Castle, Duke of York, Earl of Wiltshire, John of Gaunt, Black Prince, Charles Kean, Duke of Herford, Thomas Mowbray, Chamberlain's Men, Lord Aumerle, Roger Mortimer, Harry Percy, King John, Lord Marshal, Matthew Law, Shakespeare's Richard, Westminster Abbey, Earl of Essex, John Barton, Master of the Revels, Richard of Bordeaux, Duke of Gloucester, England's Parnassus New!
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- KING RICHARD THE SECOND by William Shakespeare on 6 pages
- The History Plays by William Shakespeare on 4 pages
- Much Ado About Nothing (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and page 185
- The Comedy of Errors (The New Cambridge Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- The Comedy of Errors (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
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- Blood Will Tell in Shakespeare's Plays (Graduate Studies) by David Shelley Berkeley on page 59, and Back Matter
- Richard II (Penguin) (Shakespeare, Penguin) by William Shakespeare on page 160, and page 268
- Continental Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy) by Andrew Cutrofello on page 68, and page 217
- Richard II (Signet Classics) by William Shakespeare in Front Matter, and page 1
- Shakespeare: Texts and Contexts (Shakespeare, Text and Performance) by Kiernan Ryan on page 50
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