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In Shakespearean scholarship, the Henriad refers to a group of William Shakespeare's history plays depicting the rise of the English kings. It is sometimes used to refer to a group of four plays, but
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Richard II (play)
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The Life and Death of King Richard the Second, also Richard II, is a Shakespearean history play about the lifetime and reign of King Richard II of England. As a dramatised period history of the Englis
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…the 19th century, Algernon Charles Swinburne used the term to refer to three plays, but that use is not current. In one sense, the Henriad refers to: Richard II; Henry IV, Part 1; Henry IV, Part 2; and Henry V – with the implication that these four plays are Shakespeare's epic, and that Prince Hal, who later…
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Richard II: The Entry of Richard and Bolingbroke into London, [Act V, Scene 2]. (James Northcote, 1793)
The Landing of Richard II at Milford Haven, William Hamilton (c.1793–1800)
Richard II Resigning the Crown to Bolingbroke, John Gilbert (1875–76)
The 1587 edition of Holinshed's Chronicles