In the First Folio, the plays of William Shakespeare were in three categories: comedies, histories, and tragedies. Alongside the history plays of his Renaissance playwright contemporaries, the histori
The First Folio (1623): The title page of the history play The Life and Death of King John.
The Informal Coronation of Henry VII by Lord Stanley on the Battlefield of Bosworth, August 22, 1485 depicts a key historical event in the Tudor claim to the Throne of England. (Richard Caton Woodville Jr.)
King Henry VI, Part I: Joan of Arc conjures demons for battle against the English invaders of France. (C. Warren, 1805)
'Falstaff', (Adolfo Hohenstein)—according to Danby, "in every sense, the bigger man" than Hal
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
Shakespearean history
…are Henry VI, parts I, II, and III, and The Tragedy of Richard the Third. The second tetralogy was completed in 1599, and comprises the history plays Richard II, Henry IV, parts I and II, and Henry V. Moreover, the First Folio includes the classifications of the late romances and of the problem plays that feature…
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