The actor, on a hot streak after “Wicked,” takes on his biggest stage role to date. In London, he plays Shakespeare’s ...

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 ...

Hytner’s take on Richard II does nothing to make me think I’m ... usually his absolute belief in his own divine right to rule England, which blinds him to the fact he’s really terrible ...

The play has some of Shakespeare’s finest poetry (including Gaunt’s “This England” speech ... Manuel Harlan Still, Richard II, with its rigid structure and strict double-narrative about ...

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Richard II (6 January 1367 – c. 14 February 1400), also known as Richard of Bordeaux, was King of England from 1377 until he was deposed in 1399. Richard's father, Edward, Prince of Wales, died in ...