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Richard II

✍ Scribed by William Shakespeare

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Year: 2015;2008
Tongue: English
Weight: 194 KB
Edition: [New Penguin Shakespeare ed.] /
Category: Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

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.

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