Richard II, 9780198881964
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King’s power crumbles: betrayal, exile, and the tragic fall.

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    176 pages

  • Release Date

    11 May 2025

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Summary

The Crown and the Ground: Shakespeare’s Richard II

A dramatic retelling of the deposition of Richard II, exploring the tragic fall of a king.

For God’s sake, let us sit upon the ground, And tell sad stories of the death of kings

Crowned as a child, Richard II only knows power. The King’s court tires of his fickle, greedy reign, but it is only when he exiles his own cousin, Henry Bolingbroke, and attempts to steal his inheritance that they are pushed to act. What fo…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780198881964
ISBN-10:0198881967
Series:Oxford World's Classics
Author:William Shakespeare, Hailey Bachrach, Anna Pruitt, Emma Smith
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Imprint:Oxford University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:176
Release Date:11 May 2025
Weight:136g
Dimensions:198mm x 130mm x 11mm
About The Author

William Shakespeare

Hailey Bachrach is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Roehampton University, where her fellowship project, Shakespeare and Consent, explores depictions of consent to sex and marriage on the early modern stage, and how contemporary artists grapple with the issues these raise. She completed her PhD at King’s College London in collaboration with the Globe, including working as a rehearsal room researcher in the 2019 history plays cycle. She is the author of Staging Female Characters in Shakespeare’s English History Plays (2023).

Anna Pruitt is the Managing Editor of Giving USA at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at Indiana University. She is an Associate Editor of The New Oxford Shakespeare.

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