Richard II is a tough ask of a piece ... When Richard’s uncle John of Gaunt dies, Bailey flops insouciantly onto the sick bed and starts tucking into some grapes. The scene changes are accompanied by ...

Richard II is charismatic, eloquent and loved by his ... this England,” sighs the ailing Gaunt, played efficiently by Martin Carroll), its lyricism becomes slightly muted, though never by ...

Although a handsome, cultured man he was not a successful ruler and he was deposed as king and imprisoned in 1399 by his cousin Henry Bolingbroke (who became Henry IV), son of John of Gaunt ...

But just as BOLINGBROKE and MOWBRAY assume their positions to commence battle, RICHARD halts proceedings. The King summons the two opponents to his tent where, joined by JOHN OF GAUNT, he exclaims ...

Richard is an irresponsible king, who wastes his country's money and leases out land. After being banished by Richard, Henry Bolingbroke returns intent on taking back the land Richard seized after ...

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The play has some of Shakespeare’s finest poetry (including Gaunt’s “This England ... Manuel Harlan Still, Richard II, with its rigid structure and strict double-narrative about two ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. We first see Jonathan Bailey’s magnetic Richard II picked out by a shaft of white light against a dark ...

But Bailey makes a transfixing Richard, his plight engaging to the ... or kicking the walking frame out from under a frail John of Gaunt (on press night, Martin Carroll standing in for an ...