Learn more about Nicholas Hytner’s hit production starring Jonathan Bailey and plan your Richard II play London trip ...

Only eight years earlier, Henry IV had deposed his cousin Richard II, who died in custody soon afterwards. Richard’s rule was so loathed that the army Henry amassed didn’t have to fight a single ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bailey’s Richard II borders on pantomime villainy (when he tucks into a bunch of grapes on the hospital bed his uncle John of Gaunt just died on, I was slightly slack-jawed), but that doesn’t ...

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 ...

From Richard II, starring Bridgerton heartthrob Jonathan Bailey ... but his words are spoken in a way so natural and endearing. Notably gaunt and modernly dressed, with an array of shirts and ...

OK, that’s the wrong play since it’s a line from “Macbeth,” but it best sums up Jonathan Bailey’s performance in the new London production of “Richard II”: The actor cranks up ...