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
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
The Life of Henry the Fifth, often shortened to Henry V, is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written circa 1599. It tells the story of King Henry V of England, focusing on
Richard II (play)
…English history plays, the political narrative of Richard II is thematically followed throughout the stories of Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2, and Henry V, which also are histories of the reigns of his royal successors to the Throne of England. Although the First Folio (1623) classifies The Life and Death…
Title page of the first quarto (1600)
A print of Act III, Scene i: "Once more unto the breach, dear friends!"
Katharine learns English from her gentlewoman Alice in an 1888 lithograph by Laura Alma-Tadema. Act III, Scene iv.