Richard II
Shakespeare, William / Watts, Professor Cedric, M.A. Ph.D. (Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex) Richard II is one of Shakespeare's finest works: lucid, eloquent, and boldly structured. It can be seen as a tragedy, or a historical play, or a political drama, or as one part of a vast dramatic cycle which helped to generate England's national identity. Today, to some of us, Richard II may appear conservative, but, in Shakespeare's day, it could appear subversive: 'I am Richard II', declared an indignant Queen Elizabeth.Numerous recent reviv...