Globe: Richard II
Globe: Ричард II
Ruling by divine right, but himself ruled by caprice, King Richard exiles Henry Bolingbroke and seizes his father’s vast estates. While Richard is distracted by a rebellion in Ireland, Bolingbroke returns to England, intent on recovering his rightful property and, with the support of his disgruntled peers, perhaps seizing the crown itself.
Dazzlingly eloquent and ceremonious, Richard II invests a weak and self-dramatising man with tragic status and represents Shakespeare’s most searching exploration of the meaning of kingship and the rising powers that can destroy it.
Actors
Richard II
Henry Bolingbroke
Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk
Duchess of York
Earl of Northumberland
John of Gaunt
Crew
Shakespeare's Globe
Language
English
Runtime
2 hours 41 minutes with one intermission
Act 1
89 min
Intermission
10 min
Act 2
82 min
2016
16+
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