Richard II

Richard II Criticism

• Richard II (Vol. 52)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism: The Morality Of The King: Richard Ii Vs. Bolingbroke
    • Richard II
    • Beggars and Kings: Cowardice and Courage in Shakespeare's Richard II
  • Criticism: Relationship To Elizabethan England
    • The Censorship of the Deposition Scene in Richard II
    • 'By the Choice and Inuitation of Al The Realm': Richard II and Elizabethan Press Censorship
  • Criticism: Mythological Allusions
    • Richard II and the Myth of the Fisher King
    • Paradise and Paradise Lost in Richard II
    • The Phaëton Allusion in Richard II: The Search for Identity
  • Criticism: Gaunt
    • John of Gaunt and the Rhetoric of Frustration
    • Private Grief into Public Action: The Rhetoric of John of Gaunt in Richard II
  • Further Reading
• Richard II (Vol. 58)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
    • The Genre of Richard II
    • Part One: Text
  • Criticism: Character Studies
    • The Antic Disposition of Richard II
    • The ‘Parasitical’ Counselors in Shakespeare's Richard II: A Problem in Dramatic Interpretation
    • Shakespeare's Richard II as Landlord and Wasting Tenant
  • Criticism: Historical Realism And Elizabethan Reception
    • Telling the Truth with Authority: From Richard II to Richard II
    • ‘A Liberal Tongue’: Language and Rebellion in Richard II
  • Criticism: Language
    • Richard II: Metadrama and the Fall of Speech
    • The Language of Treason in Richard II
  • Further Reading
• Richard II (Vol. 70)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism: Character Studies
    • Richard of Bordeaux
    • The Function of York in Richard II.
    • The Admirable Character of York
  • Criticism: Production Reviews
    • The BBC Richard II.
    • Review of Richard II
    • Here's Richardness
    • Fiennes Plays Politics at BAM
  • Criticism: Themes
    • The Theatrical Consistency of Richard II.
    • A New History for Shakespeare and His Time
    • The Betrayal of the Gaze: Theatricality and Power in Shakespeare's Richard II
    • A Question of Balance: The Problematic Structure of Richard II.
  • Further Reading
• Richard II (Vol. 81)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
    • A World of Rhetoric in Richard II.
    • Climax and Anti-Climax in Richard II.
  • Criticism: Character Studies
    • God Will Save the King: Shakespeare's Richard II.
    • Charismas in Conflict: Richard II and Henry Bolingbroke
    • Unstable Identity in Shakespeare's Richard II.
    • Introduction to The Arden Shakespeare: King Richard II
  • Criticism: Production Reviews
    • Fiona Shaw's Richard II: The Girl as Player-King as Comic
    • Review of Shakespeare in Performance: King Richard II
    • Uneasy Leaders Whose Downfall Lay Within Themselves
    • Review of Richard II
    • Review of Richard II
    • Review of Richard II
  • Criticism: Themes
    • This Royal Throne Unkinged
    • Prophecy and Ideology in Shakespeare's Richard II.
    • Banishing Cain: The Gardening Metaphor in Richard II and the Genesis Myth of the Origin of History
    • Theories of History in Richard II.
  • Further Reading
• Richard II (Vol. 91)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
    • ‘Like to a tenement or pelting farm’—Richard II and the Idea of the Nation
    • King Richard II.
  • Criticism: Character Studies
    • Richard II.
    • The Tragedy of Richard II
  • Criticism: Production Reviews
    • Privilege of Gender
    • From Tyrant to Martyr
    • With an Eye to the Present
    • An Eloquent Examination of Kingship
    • Power to the Scapegoat
    • Review of Richard II
  • Criticism: Themes
    • ‘Mock Not’: The Problem of Laughter in Richard II.
    • Landholding, Leasing, and Inheritance in Richard II.
    • Shakespeare's Religious Background Revisited: Richard II in a New Context
    • ‘Awhile To Work, And After Holiday’: Richard II and the Roots of a Festive History
  • Further Reading
• The Lamentable Comedy of Richard II
• The Crown, the Mirror and the Clock: Shakespeare's Richard II
• Loyal Fathers and Treacherous Sons: Familial Politics in Richard II
  • Introduction
  • I
  • II
  • III
• Richard II (Vol. 39)
  • Introduction
  • Kingship
    • Richard II
    • Richard II: 'Let Not Tomorrow Then Ensue Today'
  • Politics And Power
    • "Richard II" and Carnival Politics
    • Loyal Fathers and Treacherous Sons: Familial Politics in Richard II
  • Language And Imagery
    • Wasted Time in Richard II
    • Queen of Sorrow, King of Grief: Reflections and Perspectives in Richard II
  • Further Reading
• Marlowe's Edward II: Penetrating Language in Shakespeare's Richard II
  • Introduction
  • What Shakespeare saw in Marlowe's Edward II: Twins and rival twins
  • Edward II: In Richard II
• Speaking Freely about Richard II