Richard II believed that English kings were made by God. When he came to the throne in 1377, ... The deposition scene was cut ...

Richard, towards the end, had pictured himself as the source of all law, and according to the deposition articles of 1399, he had said that the laws of England were 'in his mouth or in his breast ...

Thanks to the 16th-century worldview that we’ve inherited most powerfully through Shakespeare (read Kate Maltby’s review of Nicholas Hytner’s new production of Richard II here), Richard’s deposition ...

“Richard II,” the less popular and less produced of the two “Richards,” introduces a changeable king. ... during Richard’s brutal deposition by Bolingbroke, Holland declared, ...

Richard, towards the end, had pictured himself as the source of all law, and according to the deposition articles of 1399, he had said that the laws of England were 'in his mouth or in his breast ...