Richard II

by Margaret Healy

Deeply immersed in the politics of kingship, Richard II was undoubtedly one of the most controversial plays to be staged in the 1050s. This book locates Richard II firmly amidst the late-sixteenth-century heated debates between champions of absolute monarchy and advocates of a more limited, democratic style of government; debates which culminated in the 1640s in the deposition and killing of an actual monarch - Charles I. Outlining both conservative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0746308450
• ISBN13: 9780746308455
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.4"