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Shakespeare's "Richard II"
URI:
https://gptkb.org/entity/Shakespeare's_"Richard_II"
GPTKB entity
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Predicate
Object
gptkbp:instanceOf
gptkb:play
gptkbp:author
gptkb:William_Shakespeare
gptkbp:dateWritten
circa 1595
gptkbp:firstPerformed
gptkb:London
1595
gptkbp:firstPublished
1597
gptkbp:followedBy
none (first in second tetralogy)
gptkbp:genre
history play
gptkbp:historicalPeriod
late 14th century
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
Shakespeare's "Richard II"
gptkbp:language
English
gptkbp:mainCharacter
gptkb:King_Richard_II
gptkb:John_of_Gaunt
gptkb:Henry_Bolingbroke
Holy Roman Emperor
gptkbp:notableAdaptation
gptkb:BBC_Television_Shakespeare_(1978)
2012 BBC The Hollow Crown series
gptkbp:notableQuote
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.
gptkbp:numberOfActs
5
gptkbp:partOf
gptkb:Shakespeare's_histories
gptkbp:precededBy
gptkb:Henry_IV,_Part_1
gptkbp:setting
gptkb:England
gptkbp:source
gptkb:Holinshed's_Chronicles
gptkbp:structure
written entirely in verse
gptkbp:subject
the deposition of King Richard II
gptkbp:bfsParent
gptkb:Shakespeare's_"King_Henry_IV,_Part_1"
gptkbp:bfsLayer
7