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    The Life and Death of King Richard the Second, commonly called Richard II, is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written around...
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  • Richard Shakespeare (1490 – before 10 February 1561) was a husbandman of Snitterfield, Warwickshire, four miles (6.5 km) north-northeast of Stratford-upon-Avon...
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    final fate. Richard's posthumous reputation has been shaped to a large extent by William Shakespeare, whose play Richard II portrayed Richard's misrule and...
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    Trinity Church by Richard Barton of Coventry. The twins were probably named after Hamnet Sadler, a baker, who witnessed Shakespeare's will, and the baker's...
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    all three myths in their treatment of the period from Richard II to Henry VII. For Shakespeare's use of the three myths, see Interpretations. H. A. Kelly...
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    adulthood. He was the son of Richard Shakespeare of the Warwickshire village of Snitterfield, a farmer. John Shakespeare moved to Stratford-upon-Avon...
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  • (2003). "Mixing Media and Animating Shakespeare". In Burt, Richard; Boose, Lynda E. (eds.). Shakespeare, The Movie II: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV...
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    Richard III is a play by William Shakespeare. It was probably written c. 1592–1594. It is labelled a history in the First Folio, and is usually considered...
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    Shakespeare's plays are a canon of approximately 39 dramatic works written by the English poet, playwright, and actor William Shakespeare. The exact number...
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  • "Richard II" is first episode of the first series of the British television series The Hollow Crown, based on William Shakespeare's play of the same name...
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    Anne Shakespeare (née Hathaway; 1556 – 6 August 1623) was the wife of William Shakespeare, an English poet, playwright and actor. They were married in...
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    Shakespeare. London: Penguin. pp. 249–286. ISBN 978-0-14-101586-6. Dawson, Anthony B.; Yachnin, Paul, eds. (2012). Richard II. The Oxford Shakespeare...
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    David Suchet (category Royal Shakespeare Company members)
    Watermill Theatre. In 1973, he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 1981–82, he played Bolingbroke in Richard II opposite Alan Howard. In 1993 he played "John"...
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  • Elizabethan play depicting events in the reign of King Richard II. Attributions of the play to William Shakespeare have been nearly universally rejected, and it...
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    William Shakespeare was an actor, playwright, poet, and theatre entrepreneur in London during the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean eras. He was baptised...
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  • The Hollow Crown (TV series) (category Cultural depictions of Richard II of England)
    William Shakespeare's history plays. The first series is an adaptation of Shakespeare's second historical tetralogy, the Henriad: Richard II, Henry IV...
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    Night complete Shakespeare's sequence of great comedies. After the lyrical Richard II, written almost entirely in verse, Shakespeare introduced prose...
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    Henriad refers to: Richard II; Henry IV, Part 1; Henry IV, Part 2; and Henry V – with the implication that these four plays are Shakespeare's epic, and that...
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    née Shakespeare, was the younger daughter of William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway and the fraternal twin of their only son Hamnet Shakespeare. She married...
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    Richard Shakespeare, the father of John Shakespeare, was a tenant farmer on land owned by her father in Snitterfield. As the daughter of Richard's landlord...
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    The Shakespeare apocrypha is a group of plays and poems that have sometimes been attributed to William Shakespeare, but whose attribution is questionable...
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    Adjoa Andoh (category Royal Shakespeare Company members)
    In 2019, she co-directed with Lynette Linton a production of Richard II at Shakespeare's Globe. It was the first production of the play in the UK with...
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  • The BBC Television Shakespeare is a series of British television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, created by Cedric Messina and broadcast...
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    his diary that Shakespeare had a brief affair with a woman during a performance of Richard III. Upon a time when Burbage played Richard the Third there...
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    programme notes (including those for Richard II at the Courtyard, August 2007) Official website Royal Shakespeare Company at Google Cultural Institute...
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    (2011). Richard II: The Oxford Shakespeare. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19162-003-4. Shewring, M. (1996). King Richard II. Manchester:...
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  • Joan Shakespeare (married name Joan Hart; baptised 15 April 1569 – buried 4 November 1646) was the sister of William Shakespeare. She is the only member...
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  • Shakespeare in Love is a 1998 period romantic comedy film directed by John Madden, written by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, and produced by Harvey Weinstein...
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  • Thomas Quiney (category Shakespeare family)
    Thomas had three children: Shakespeare, Richard, and Thomas. Shakespeare Quiney died at six months of age, and neither Richard nor Thomas lived past 21...
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  • Forker (ed.) The Adren Shakespeare (3rd series) "King Richard II" Antony Hammond (ed.) The Arden Shakespeare (2nd series) "King Richard III" Robert B. Heilman...
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