The Complete Richard II: An Annotated Edition of the Shakespeare Play (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781496969354)

Richard the Second is essentially weak and vacillating. Self-indulgent and prodigal, he appears to be a natural candidate for overthrow by his cousin, Henry Bolingbroke. He is a man who enjoys the trappings of being king but fails to measure up to the responsibilities. Self-pitying and duplicitous, perhaps he deserves the reader's pity-but he doesn't elicit pity from his subjects or his peers. In one sense, then, it seems ordained that he be replaced by the future Henry IV.

Author: Donald J. Richardson
ISBN-10: 1496969359
ISBN-13: 9781496969354
Publisher: Authorhouse
Language: English
Published: 03/04/2015
Pages: 228
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52d