![]() ![]() By the end of the play, he is not king anymore he is dead. When Richard II begins, Richard is in full king mode: throne, crown, sceptre. The“Henriad” shows the monarchy in a state of turmoil. These plays were recently presented as the BBC series the hollow crown (2012-2016). It is the first part of the“Henriad”, a sequence of eight historical plays that span the“Wars of the Roses”: Richard II, Henry IV parts 1 and 2, Henry V, Henry VI parts 1, 2 and 3, and Richard III. Shakespeare wrote Richard II around 1595. It is also a play that saw Shakespeare risking some serious trouble with the God-appointed monarch of his time, Elizabeth I. Shakespeare's Richard II is a play that asks us, among other things, what it means to have power, what it means to take power, and what we're left with when power is gone. ![]() ( MENAFN- The Conversation) What do you do with a bad king? And what do you do when that bad king is (allegedly) appointed by God? ![]()
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