Richard II became King of England when he was 10, and in William Shakespeare’s account of the last year of his reign in 1399 before he was deposed, the 32-year-old Richard still has the mind of a kid.

The Old Globe presents the first offering in the 2017 Summer Shakespeare Festival: William Shakespeare's epic King Richard II, helmed by award-winning director Erica Schmidt (Off Broadway's A Month in ...

The story of Shakespeare’s “Richard II” revolves around two men who would be king. The story of the Old Globe Theatre’s return to the darkly poetic history play, though, revolves around two artists ...

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In an inspired adaptation to the times, Shakespeare in the Park becomes Shakespare on the Radio next week, as the Public Theater and WNYC team up for a serialized production of Richard II. Originally ...

The Public Theater’s production of Shakespeare’s Richard II, originally slated to begin its 2020 Free Shakespeare in the Park season at the Delacorte Theater in New York’s Central Park, will still go ...

Hyperion Shakespeare Company’s “Richard II” wants very badly to explore the politics of gender. The production, which ran this weekend in the Horner Room of the Agassiz Theater, brings an all-female ...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (UPI) -- Richard II and Henry V are the bookends of the four Shakespeare history plays that include Henry IV Parts 1 and 2. Richard is deposed by his cousin Bolingbroke, who thus ...

Relics from the tomb of the medieval English King Richard II -- including wood from his coffin and sketches of his skull -- have been found by London's National Portrait Gallery. An archivist at ...

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If it’s possible to say about a work of Shakespeare, Richard II is perhaps the most underrated of the Bard’s plays in the most underrated genre of his work. I used to play the Shakespeare quiz on ...