This new production from Sport for Jove presents eight of Shakepeare’s history plays in order. It is stupendously absorbing ...

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

Why stage Richard II in 2025? Perhaps, post-Brexit, because it kicks off Shakespeare’s eight-play retelling of the Wars of the Roses, a conflict which saw England so riven with internal division that ...

Its title, “The Purple Testament,” quotes Shakespeare’s Richard II, who warns darkly of opening “the purple testament of ...

The trend continues as he now takes on the role of Shakespeare's Richard II at the Bridge Theatre in London. He tells the BBC that his portrayal of the authoritarian king who ruled in the 1300s ...

Jonathan Bailey gives the best performance I’ve ever seen of Shakespeare’s flawed monarch ... Manuel Harlan Still, Richard II, with its rigid structure and strict double-narrative about ...

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 ...

One of the stunning achievements of 16th-century drama, Shakespeare's Richard II is nevertheless seldom performed. The reason is simple: it is deucedly difficult to do well. I commend the American ...

Richard is an irresponsible king, who wastes his country's money and leases out land. After being banished by Richard, Henry Bolingbroke returns intent on taking back the land Richard seized after ...