Forfatter fødeår: 1564-1616
Richard II is one of Shakespeare’s finest works: lucid, eloquent, and boldly structured. It can be seen as a tragedy, or a historical play, or a political drama, or as one part of a vast dramatic cycle which helped to generate England’s national identity.
A Scottish nobleman murders the king in order to succeed to the throne. Tortured by his conscience and fearful of discovery, he becomes tangled in a web of treachery and deceit that ultimately spells his doom. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
Part of Shakespeare's tetralogy dealing with the Hundred Years War and the Wars of the Roses, this second play includes an introduction to Shakespeare's life and Elizabethan theatre and provides a separate introduction to Henry VI, Part Two.
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