Dan Jones What most people know of medieval English King Henry V, if most people know anything at all about him, is ...

Only eight years earlier, Henry IV had deposed his cousin Richard II, who died in custody soon afterwards. Richard’s rule was ...

Learn more about Nicholas Hytner’s hit production starring Jonathan Bailey and plan your Richard II play London trip ...

By Houman Barekat Reviewing from London The Bridge Theater is within walking distance of the Tower of London, where in 1399 King Richard II was imprisoned and forced to abdicate England’s throne ...

Richard II and Henry IV were first cousins, born in 1367 just three months apart. They were ten years old when Richard became king of England. They were 32 when, in 1399, Henry overthrew him to become ...

A nation in need, an unsuitable king, banishments, murders, attempted coups. Richard II has it all and so does Jonathan Bailey. He might be dancing through Hollywood and hanging out with the ...

Manuel Harlan Still, Richard II, with its rigid structure and strict ... He doesn’t sugar the king’s brattish reluctance to cede the crown but in later speeches attains a stricken grandeur.

Does Hytner stage Shakespeare excitingly? Does Bailey captivate the critics as the capricious king? Do the reviewers rate Richard II? Fergus Morgan rounds up the reviews... Hytner has staged some ...

His king is self-satisfied and perfectly petulant ... are torn between loyalty to his plotting son and the crown — glow with life. “Richard II” is always going to be a slow-burn play ...

A third of US Presidents between 1776 to 1974 demonstrated symptoms of clinically significant depression, bipolar disorder ...