Richard II | Overview

A.L. French analyzes the characters and structure of Richard II, maintaining that the play presents an inconsistent rendering of one of the key events in the play— the deposition of Richard. Author M. Charney explores the primary themes and characters in and comments on the relevancy of key scenes to events occurring in Shakespeare's England.

A. L. French

[In the essay that follows, French analyzes the characters and structure of Richard II, maintaining that the play presents an inconsistent rendering of one of the key events in the play— the deposition of Richard. French states that in the first half of the play, there is little to indicate that the king will be deposed, but in the second half of the play, other characters clearly view Richard as having been deposed.]

A couple of years ago I saw a competent amateur performance of Richard II. As it happened I had not read the play...

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