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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)
film by Deborah Warner (1997)
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gptkbp:author
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gptkb:William_Shakespeare
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gptkbp:countryOfOrigin
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gptkb:England
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gptkbp:dateWritten
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circa 1595
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gptkbp:firstPerformed
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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:form
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verse and prose
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gptkbp:genre
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history play
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gptkbp:historicalSignificance
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gptkb:Richard_II_of_England
gptkb:Henry_IV_of_England
gptkb:John_of_Gaunt
Holy Roman Emperor
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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Shakespeare's Richard II
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gptkbp:influencedBy
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gptkb:Edward_Hall's_The_Union_of_the_Two_Noble_and_Illustre_Families_of_Lancaster_and_York
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gptkbp:language
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English
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gptkbp:literaryPeriod
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Elizabethan era
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gptkbp:location
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gptkb:London
gptkb:Wales
gptkb:Westminster
gptkb:Pomfret_Castle
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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:notableFeature
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written entirely in verse
focus on political drama
no comic subplots
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gptkbp:notablePerformance
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gptkb:David_Tennant_(RSC,_2013)
gptkb:Mark_Rylance_(Globe_Theatre,_2003)
gptkb:Ben_Whishaw_(The_Hollow_Crown,_2012)
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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: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:Valentine_Simmes_(first_quarto)
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gptkbp:setting
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gptkb:England
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gptkbp:source
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gptkb:Holinshed's_Chronicles
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gptkbp:structure
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five acts
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gptkbp:subject
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the downfall of King Richard II
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gptkbp:theme
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betrayal
political intrigue
divine right of kings
legitimacy of kingship
identity and power
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gptkbp:bfsParent
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gptkb:Shakespeare's_Henry_IV,_Part_1
gptkb:Flint_Castle
gptkb:Henry_Bolingbroke_(Henry_IV)
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gptkbp:bfsLayer
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6
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