Richard II (Vol. 39) | Sharon Cadman Seelig (essay date 1995)
Sharon Cadman Seelig (essay date 1995)
SOURCE: "Loyal Fathers and Treacherous Sons: Familial Politics in Richard II" in Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Vol. 94, No. 3, July, 1995, pp. 347-64.
[In this essay, Seelig examines two scenes from Act V of Richard II, which illustrate that the play's familial conflicts serve to underscore political and moral conflicts.]
The last act of Shakespeare's Richard II contains a pair of scenes that constitute a problem for the director and a puzzle for the critic, material so out of keeping with the rest of the play that even one of the dramatis personae is made to remark that difference. In the earlier scene (V.ii) the Duke of York first lamentingly retells Richard's passage through the streets of London and then discovers his son Aumerle's involvement in a plot to assassinate Richard's successor King Henry. In the next scene, which begins with Henry's inquiry...
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