Shakespeare was a social entrepreneur and entertainer in a world riven by crises, and much can be learned from bringing him ...

Learn more about Nicholas Hytner’s hit production starring Jonathan Bailey and plan your Richard II play London trip ...

Some say Shakespeare invented the “history play” – but he had a lot of help. Shakespeare was mainly writing comedies in the ...

Readers and audiences have turned to Shakespeare's greatest plays ... English history to ask still-relevant questions about legitimacy, and about how a performance of Richard II played a role ...

OK, that's the wrong play since it's a line from "Macbeth," but it best sums up Jonathan Bailey's performance in the new London production of "Richard ... staging of Shakespeare's history play.

More photos have been released of Jonathan Bailey and the cast of Richard II at the Bridge Theatre! Directed by Nicholas ...

Perhaps, given our era’s interest in sexual identity, because it is rooted in the history of one ... For a Shakespeare play rooted in metaphors about the cultivation of the English landscape, however, ...

The Bridgerton star doesn’t attain the greatness of Ben Whishaw and David Tennant as Richard in Nicholas Hytner’s unflashy staging ...

The first of Shakespeare's history plays, Richard II sees the unlikeable and corrupt king be usurped by his cousin Henry ...

The next documented event in Shakespeare ... plays were mainly histories and comedies such as 'Henry VI', 'Titus Andronicus', 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', 'The Merchant of Venice' and 'Richard II'.