Shakespeare's 'Richard II'

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Shakespeare's_'Richard_II'

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Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:play
gptkbp:adaptation	gptkb:2012_BBC_The_Hollow_Crown gptkb:BBC_Television_Shakespeare_(1978) Royal Shakespeare Company productions
gptkbp:author	gptkb:William_Shakespeare
gptkbp:countryOfOrigin	gptkb:England
gptkbp:dateWritten	circa 1595
gptkbp:firstFolio	1623
gptkbp:firstPublished	1597
gptkbp:firstQuarto	1597
gptkbp:followedBy	gptkb:Henry_IV,_Part_1
gptkbp:form	prose verse
gptkbp:genre	history play
gptkbp:historicalSignificance	gptkb:Richard_II_of_England gptkb:Henry_IV_of_England gptkb:John_of_Gaunt Holy Roman Emperor
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Shakespeare's 'Richard II'
gptkbp:influenced	later Shakespearean history plays
gptkbp:influencedBy	gptkb:historical_documents
gptkbp:language	English
gptkbp:literaryPeriod	Elizabethan era
gptkbp:mainCharacter	gptkb:King_Richard_II gptkb:John_of_Gaunt gptkb:Henry_Bolingbroke Holy Roman Emperor
gptkbp:notablePerformance	gptkb:Ben_Whishaw_(BBC,_2012) gptkb:David_Tennant_(RSC,_2013) gptkb:Mark_Rylance_(Globe,_2003)
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:notableScene	John of Gaunt's 'sceptred isle' speech Richard's abdication Richard's imprisonment and death deposition scene (Act IV, Scene 1)
gptkbp:originalTitle	gptkb:The_Tragedy_of_King_Richard_the_Second
gptkbp:partOf	Shakespeare's second tetralogy
gptkbp:precededBy	none (first in tetralogy)
gptkbp:setting	gptkb:England
gptkbp:source	gptkb:Holinshed's_Chronicles
gptkbp:structure	five acts
gptkbp:subject	the deposition of King Richard II
gptkbp:theme	betrayal political intrigue divine right of kings legitimacy of kingship identity and power
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:John_of_Gaunt
gptkbp:bfsLayer	5