Richard II

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• wolverine876 · Mar 21, 2022 · Recommends

  …college? I doubt it, though that's just me. [0] Without knowing the reader's experience with the Bard, let me recommend Julius Caesar especially, also Henry VI Part 2 and Part 3, and of course their sequel, Richard III. Richard II is good too. I'd skip Henry VI Part 1 but read a synopsis as context for Part 2: Part 1 is clearly substandard IMHO and, it turns out, is believed to be mostly written by a collaborator,…

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• hilbert42 · Jun 23, 2023 · Critical

  …what was lost on me,…" What age was that? I reckon most kids think Shakespeare is difficult at the beginning because of the language, and that brings me back to a point made in the article: "For me, Richard II is the most dull of the Henriad plays." I now think so too, but when I was studying the play it was the first one with any real story to it, so it encouraged me to figure out the language so I could…

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• jfengel · Oct 20, 2026 · Mentions

  …data to make conclusive statements like this. Shakespeare wrote a lot of plays on similar subjects, and it's no surprise that a lot of words overlap. That doesn't mean it's not interesting. I'm doing Richard II right now, which is unarguably Shakespeare, and Edward III an immediate prequel. It's too bad that more characters don't overlap. Edward and his son are dead, leaving Richard in charge, and the early…

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• goto11 · Oct 15, 2020 · Mentions

  …tragedy is not supposed to an ideal of virtue. The author of the article seem surprised that Hamlet is not idealized but rather acts both stupidly and unfairly. But look at the other tragedy protagonists - Richard II, Richard III, Macbeth, Othello, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet. They are all severely flawed and make disastrous mistakes. We are supposed to empathize with these characters, not sympathize. On the other…

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