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Richard II A History

✍ Scribed by William Shakespeare

Publisher: HarperCollins Canada;Harper Perennial
Year: 2014
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 59 KB
Category: Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

When King Richard II banishes two feuding noblemen from England, he sets into motion a series of events that will eventually cost him his crown and his life. Mishandling several issues that enrage the nobility, King Richard II brings the wrath of Henry Bolingbroke, the future King Henry IV, down upon his throne. Richard II is the first of four connected plays about successive British monarchs, and is followed by Henry IV, Part I, Henry IV, Part II, and Henry V.

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