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King Richard II, This study considers the theatrical fortunes of Richard II from its politically controversial beginnings on the Elizabethan and Restoration stage to its various later interpretations responding to nineteenth and twentieth-century tastes and attitud, King Richard II
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  • King Richard II
  • Written by author Margaret Shewring
  • Published by Manchester University Press, 1998/05/14
  • This study considers the theatrical fortunes of Richard II from its politically controversial beginnings on the Elizabethan and Restoration stage to its various later interpretations responding to nineteenth and twentieth-century tastes and attitud
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Series editors' preface
Prefatory note
Pt. 1 'Dangerous matter': Shakespeare's Richard II - its structure and context
I A question of balance: the problematic structure of Richard II 2
II Deposition and regicide: the concept of 'state' in Shakespeare's Richard II 21
III The politics and aesthetics of 'subsequent performances': Richard II on the mid-seventeenth- to mid-nineteenth-century stage 30
Pt. 2 Richard II on stage and television: 1857-1987
IV The spectacle of history: Charles Kean and Jeremy Irons/Barry Kyle 48
V A play of personality: Frank Benson, John Gielgud and Ian McKellen 63
VI In the context of English History: Anthony Quayle (1951); the RSC's Wars of the Roses (1964) and the ESC's Wars of the Roses (1986/89) 91
VII Adjusting the balance: John Barton (1973/74) 117
VIII Richard II on television: Maurice Evans (NBC) and Derek Jacobi (BBC) 138
Pt. 3 Richard II in other cultural contexts
IX The politics and aesthetics of theatrical languages: Richard II on the European stage - Jean Vilar, Giorgio Strehler and Ariane Mnouchkine 154
Afterword: A Richard II for the 1990s 180
Bibliography 185
Appendix 1 The Lambarde Document, 1601 190
Appendix 2 The Entry into London (Charles Kean, 1857) 192
Appendix 3 Major actors and staff 194
Index 201


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