Richard II

Preface Joseph G. Price Introduction Jeanne T. Newlin Part 1: The Historical and Political Dynamics 1. Remarks to William Lombarde (1601) Queen Elizabeth I 2. Introduction to Richard II (1939) John Dover Wilson 3. Shakespeare's History Plays (1944) E. M. W. Tillyard 4. A Kingdom for a Stage (1972) Robert Ornstein 5. The King's Two Bodies (1957) E. H. Kantorowicz 6. Bolingbroke, a True Machiavellian (1948) Irving Ribner Part 2: Richard II: The Theatre 7. F. R. Benson's Richard II (1899) C. E. Montague 8. At Stratford-on-Avon (1901) William Butler Yeats 9. Shakespeare's Histories at Stratford, 1951 (1952) T. C. Worsley 10. Letter to John Gielgud (1937) H. Granville Barker 11. Stage Directions (1963) John Gielgud 12. Shakespeare's Plays in Performance (1966) John Russell Brown 13. John Barton's Richard II (1976) Stanley Wells Part 3: Richard II: The Psychology of its Characters 14. Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton (1812) Samuel Taylor Coleridge 15. Shakespeare's English Kings (1889) Walter Pater 16. The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (1891) E. K. Chambers 17. Bolingbroke's 'Decision' (1951) Brents Stirling Part 4: Richard II: Poetry and Rhetoric 18. Letter to Mr. Chauvet Concerning the Unities of Time and Place in Tragedy (1820) Alessando Manzoni 19. King Richard II (1909) Algernon Charles Swinburne 20. Symphonic Imagery in Richard II (1947) Richard D. Altick