Book description
Banishing his cousin, Bolingbroke, King Richard II prevents a dispute
from turning bloody. But Richard is an arrogant and despotic ruler,
prone to tyranny and vanity, who listens only to his flatterers. As
favour turns against him and Bolingbroke returns to reclaim his land,
Richard is humbled and grieved to see that the throne given to him by
God might be taken from him by men.
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright of the 16th
and 17 centuries, now widely regarded as the greatest writer in the
English language and the word's pre-eminent dramatist.
Edited with an introduction by Paul Edmondson
General Editor: Stanley Wells
