Richard II
Author: Shakespeare, William
ISBN: 9780141396644
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year First Published: 2015
Pages: 320
Dimensions: 197mm x 129mm x 18mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery
Banishing his cousin, Bolingbroke, King Richard II prevents a dispute from turning bloody. But Richard is an arrogant and despotic ruler, prone to tyranny and vanity, who listens only to his flatterers. As favour turns against him and Bolingbroke returns to reclaim his land, Richard is humbled and grieved to see that the throne given to him by God might be taken from him by men.
ISBN: 9780141396644
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year First Published: 2015
Pages: 320
Dimensions: 197mm x 129mm x 18mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
Part of the authoritative and acclaimed Penguin Shakespeare series, now rejacketed in the celebrated Penguin Classics livery
Banishing his cousin, Bolingbroke, King Richard II prevents a dispute from turning bloody. But Richard is an arrogant and despotic ruler, prone to tyranny and vanity, who listens only to his flatterers. As favour turns against him and Bolingbroke returns to reclaim his land, Richard is humbled and grieved to see that the throne given to him by God might be taken from him by men.
