Shakespeare's play Richard II

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Shakespeare's_play_Richard_II
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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:play
gptkbp:author gptkb:William_Shakespeare
gptkbp:basedOn the life of King Richard II of England
gptkbp:dateWritten circa 1595
gptkbp:firstPerformed 1595
gptkbp:followedBy gptkb:Henry_IV,_Part_1
gptkbp:form verse
gptkbp:genre history play
gptkbp:historicalSource gptkb:Holinshed's_Chronicles
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Shakespeare's play Richard II
gptkbp:language English
gptkbp:mainCharacter gptkb:King_Richard_II
gptkb:John_of_Gaunt
gptkb:Henry_Bolingbroke
Holy Roman Emperor
gptkbp:notableAdaptation gptkb:The_Hollow_Crown_(2012)
gptkb:BBC_Television_Shakespeare_(1978)
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 Shakespeare's second tetralogy
gptkbp:precededBy none (first in the second tetralogy)
gptkbp:setting gptkb:England
gptkbp:subject deposition of Richard II
rise of Henry IV
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Pontefract_Castle
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6