Shakespeare: Richard II / Shakespeare's Globe

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Label
Opus Arte
Release Date
January 7, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      William Shakespeare
    • PERFORMER
      Charles Edwards, Henry Everett, William Gaunt, Jonny Glynn, David Sturzaker, William Chubb, Sasha Wa
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 07, 2022
    • UPC
      809478012177
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      OA 1217D
    • LABEL
      Opus Arte
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Documentaries
    Works ⌄

    1. Richard II

      Composer: William Shakespeare

      Ensemble: Shakespeare's Globe

      Performer: Charles Edwards (Richard II); Henry Everett (Salisbury); William Gaunt (John of Gaunt); Jonny Glynn (Northumberland); David Sturzaker (Bolingbroke); William Chubb (Duke of York); Sasha Waddell (Duchess of Gloucester); Sarah Woodward (Duchess of York)


Ruling by divine right, but himself ruled by caprice, King Richard exiles Henry Bolingbroke and seizes his father’s vast estates. While Richard is distracted by a rebellion in Ireland, Bolingbroke returns to England, intent on recovering his rightful property and, with the support of his disgruntled peers, perhaps seizing the crown itself. Dazzlingly eloquent and ceremonious, Richard II invests a weak and self-dramatizing man with tragic status and represents Shakespeare’s most searching exploration of the meaning of kingship and the rising powers that can destroy it.

REVIEW:

Charles Edwards’s excellent Richard pierces the heart. Recommended. (The Independent)