| gptkbp:instanceOf | gptkb:play 
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                                | gptkbp:adaptation | gptkb:The_Hollow_Crown_(2012) gptkb:BBC_Television_Shakespeare_(1978)
 Royal Shakespeare Company productions
 
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                                | gptkbp:author | gptkb:William_Shakespeare 
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                                | gptkbp:countryOfOrigin | gptkb:England 
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                                | gptkbp:dateWritten | circa 1595 
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                                | gptkbp:features | blank verse iambic pentameter
 
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                                | gptkbp:firstPerformed | 1595 
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                                | gptkbp:firstPublished | 1597 
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                                | gptkbp:genre | history play 
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                                | gptkbp:hasActivity | Act 4 Act 1
 Act 2
 Act 3
 Act 5
 
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                                | gptkbp:historicalSignificance | gptkb:Richard_II_of_England gptkb:Henry_IV_of_England
 gptkb:Holy_Roman_Emperor
 gptkb:John_of_Gaunt
 
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                                | gptkbp:historicalSource | gptkb:Holinshed's_Chronicles gptkb:The_Civil_Wars_by_Samuel_Daniel
 
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                                | gptkbp:language | English 
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                                | gptkbp:mainCharacter | gptkb:King_Richard_II gptkb:Holy_Roman_Emperor
 gptkb:John_of_Gaunt
 gptkb:Henry_Bolingbroke
 
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                                | gptkbp:notableFor | 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:notablePerformance | gptkb:David_Tennant_(RSC,_2013) gptkb:Alec_Guinness_(Old_Vic,_1947)
 gptkb:Ben_Whishaw_(The_Hollow_Crown,_2012)
 gptkb:Charles_Edwards_(Globe,_2015)
 gptkb:Derek_Jacobi_(BBC,_1978)
 gptkb:Fiona_Shaw_(National_Theatre,_1995)
 gptkb:Ian_McKellen_(Prospect_Theatre,_1969)
 gptkb:Samuel_West_(RSC,_2000)
 gptkb:Mark_Rylance_(Globe,_2003)
 John Gielgud (1937, 1953)
 Simon Russell Beale (Almeida, 2000)
 
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                                | gptkbp:partOf | gptkb:Shakespeare's_histories 
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                                | gptkbp:precededBy | gptkb:Henry_IV,_Part_1 
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                                | gptkbp:publishedIn | gptkb:First_Folio gptkb:book
 
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                                | gptkbp:setting | gptkb:England 
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                                | gptkbp:subject | deposition of Richard II 
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                                | gptkbp:theme | gptkb:identity legitimacy
 kingship
 divine right of kings
 
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                                | gptkbp:bfsParent | gptkb:Richard_II_(stage) 
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                                | gptkbp:bfsLayer | 6 
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                                | https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label | Richard II (play) 
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