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gptkbp:instanceOf
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gptkb:play
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gptkbp:adaptation
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gptkb:2012_BBC_The_Hollow_Crown
gptkb:BBC_Television_Shakespeare_(1978)
2016 Almeida Theatre production
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gptkbp:author
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gptkb:William_Shakespeare
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gptkbp:basedOn
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life of King Richard II of England
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gptkbp:category
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Elizabethan theatre
Shakespearean histories
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gptkbp:dateWritten
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circa 1595
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gptkbp:firstPerformed
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gptkb:London
1595
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gptkbp:firstPublished
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1597
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gptkbp:followedBy
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gptkb:Henry_IV,_Part_1
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gptkbp:genre
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history play
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gptkbp:historicalSource
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gptkb:Holinshed's_Chronicles
gptkb:Samuel_Daniel's_The_Civil_Wars
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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Richard II (Shakespeare)
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gptkbp:influenced
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later Shakespearean history plays
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gptkbp:influencedBy
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Elizabethan politics
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gptkbp:language
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English
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gptkbp:mainCharacter
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gptkb:King_Richard_II
gptkb:John_of_Gaunt
gptkb:Henry_Bolingbroke
Holy Roman Emperor
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gptkbp:notablePerformance
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gptkb:Fiona_Shaw_(1995,_National_Theatre)
David Tennant (2013, RSC)
Mark Rylance (2003, Globe Theatre)
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gptkbp:notableQuote
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This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle...
For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of kings.
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gptkbp:numberOfActs
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5
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gptkbp:numberOfScenes
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varies by edition (typically 19)
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gptkbp:partOf
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Shakespeare's second tetralogy
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gptkbp:precededBy
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none (first in tetralogy)
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gptkbp:publisher
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gptkb:First_Folio_(1623)
gptkb:First_Quarto_(1597)
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gptkbp:setting
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gptkb:England
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gptkbp:structure
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written entirely in verse
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gptkbp:subject
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deposition of Richard II
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gptkbp:theme
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divine right of kings
political power
legitimacy of kingship
identity and kingship
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gptkbp:bfsParent
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gptkb:Henry_IV,_Part_1_(Shakespeare)
gptkb:Henry_IV_(Shakespeare)
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gptkbp:bfsLayer
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7
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