![]() This scholarly but student-friendly edition features a freshly edited version of the text based on the early quartos and first Folio of 1623. ![]() Deftly combining history with tragedy, its tale of bad government and usurpation had great political immediacy for its first audiences in late Elizabethan England and continues to resonate today. It marks the transition from the earlier history plays dominated by civil war and stark power to a more nuanced representation of the political conflicts of England's past where character and politics are inextricably intertwined. Written in 1595, Richard II occupies a significant place in the Shakespeare canon.
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