Ricardo II
ISBN:
9788437615677 (8437615674)
Publish date: July 2005
Publisher: Catedra
Pages no: 488
Edition language: Spanish
Category:
Classics,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Read For School,
Historical Fiction,
Plays,
Drama,
Theatre,
Poetry
Richard of Bordeaux - 4* Richard II - 3.5* A few days ago, I used a long weekend to devote some time to reading more of Josephine Tey’s plays (mostly published under her pen name Gordon Daviot). The most famous of those was a little historical drama called Richard of Bordeaux, which not only prope...
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So I watched the BBC's new Richard III starring some guy with the unlikely name of Eggs Benedict Cummerbund (or summat like that). He was good, but really, if you're competent to speak Shakespeare then you can hardly fail when you have lines as fabulous as Richard III has. This version has hacked do...
It is difficult to determine whether Richard II is a tragedy or not. It appears that when Shakespeare first drafted the play he drafted it as a tragedy (and it is one of his earlier plays) however as his folio of plays increased, it fall among his history plays. It should be considered that not all ...
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