Richard II
The New Oxford Shakespeare
$16.67
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
11 May 2025
Summary
‘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 tire 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 follows threatens Richard’s crown and with it his sense of self. Shakespeare’s most tragic history play uses the rich and messy familial web of monarchy to explore…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780198881964 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0198881967 |
| 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 |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
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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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