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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Richard II"”.
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Joan de Mohun: a powerful courtier during the reign of Richard II
… powerful individuals, including John of Gaunt, Richard II, and Queen Anne. Through her efforts, she successfully negotiated for a place at court. This dissertation explores how Joan orchestrated a move from the periphery of the elite to a prominent position in the court of Richard II. Surviving …
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"within the hollow crown": Performing Kingship in Richard II and Henry IV Part One
… examines the parallels and connections between Richard II and Prince Hal in Shakespeare’s<em>Richard II </em>and <em>1 Henry IV </em>and what the results would be if the characters were cross-cast, or played by the same actor onstage, in performance. Criticism on the plays has often addressed …
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Staging Geographies and the Geographies of Staging: Space and Place in Shakespeare’s Richard II: Text and Production
… of their places of performance. My test case is Richard II. An analysis of the textual geographies reveals the richly ambiguous places that comprise the playworld, and applying a geographical consciousness to contemporary productions demonstrates the negotiations between Shakespeare’s …
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"Let heaven kiss earth!": The Function of Humanism and Animism in Shakespeare's Richard II and Henry IV, Parts I and II
… based on reason and personal relationships. In Richard II, Shakespeare creates characters that fall on either side of this divide, and he shows humanism triumph over animism when Henry deposes Richard. In 1 Henry IV, Shakespeare shows that this binary is not so easily reconciled, and Hal (the …
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The Lancastrian Bias in Shakespeare's Richard the Second
The life of King Richard II of England offers an interesting challenge to anyone who desires to read and interpret history in a period of civil war which often clouds and at times even obscures fact by propaganda. | It is necessary for the winning faction in most civil wars to justify its actions; …
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The Fortunes of a King: Images of Edward the Confessor in 12th to 14th Century England
… Spanning the reigns of King Henry I to King Richard II, this unique study assembles both royal and ecclesiastical images of Edward to compare and contrast their intended purposes and messages. The study explores the role that Westminster Abbey had in the emergence, adoption, and …
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Chaucer's <em>Troilus and Criseyde</em> in Male Homosocial Contexts: The Politicization of Same-Sex Desire
… how the major chronicles of the reigns of Edward II and Richard II wage a politically-motivated attack on each King's relationship with his court favorites. I argue that the chroniclers were not attacking the <em>idea</em> of close male friendships, but rather Edward's and Richard's choice of …
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Orationes Regum Ac Potentia: Monarchical Oratory and Power in Shakespeare's Henriad
… bestowed upon his three protagonists, Richard II, Henry IV, and Henry V, many epideictic, forensic, and deliberative devices and speeches. These orations reveal a more nuanced and complex characterization of these kings than just tragic hero, usurper, and ideal monarch.</p>
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This Prison Where I Live: Authority and Incarceration in Early Modern Drama
… of royal privilege. I analyze Marlowe's Edward II, Shakespeare's Richard II, Shakespeare's The Tempest, and Fletcher's The Island Princess through the cultural and historical lens of imprisonment, determining that the prison is a space where relations and power dynamics between the king and his …
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Shakespeare's Drama and Homosexuality
… za tragedie Othello a za historické hry Richard II. V Kupci benátském je rozebírán vztah Antonia a Bassania ve snaze najít možné důvody pro Antoniovu nevídanou štědrost k jeho mladému příteli. Nejznámější homosexuální interpretace tohoto vztahu je vyobrazena ve filmu Michaela Radforda z …
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A comparison of two medieval story-tellers : Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower
… they lived through the days of the reign of Richard II, his deposition, and the accession of Henry IV. This was a time change: the age of chivalry and true knighthood was ending; the middle class was establishing commerce, towns, guilds; openly and violently the peasants were beginning to …
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Unkept measures : a study of imagery in Shakespeare's Henriade
… order, and power in William Shakespeare's Richard II, 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV, and Henry V in order to demonstrate that the dramatist's use of imagery both emphasizes the themes of the plays and frequently develops the characterization of those who people the stage: Shakespeare's skillful …
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Re-Producing Shakespeare, Engendering Anxiety: Women's Cross -Gender Performance and British National Identity
… looks at Fiona Shaw's 1995--96 performance as Richard II. Her interpretation expanded Ernst Kantorowicz's interpretation of the play as the tragedy of ""the king's two bodies,"" and revealed the king's many bodies through her portrayal of Richard as king, god, lover, mother, man, woman, and …
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Devotion to St John the Baptist in England in the Middle Ages.
… Godric of Finchale, the Lollards, King Richard II and the Company of Merchant Taylors. The difficulties of establishing an idea of the popularity of the saint are considered, and the disparate evidence available, including guild and church dedications, prayers to the Baptist and …
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A brief chronicle of the time : staging Shakespeare's English histories, 2000-2010
… addresses influential film adaptations of Richard III; productions of Henry V at Manchester and the National Theatre, Richard II at the Old Vic, and Richard III: An Arab Tragedy are discussed as twenty-first century history plays; Northern Broadside’s Wars o f the Roses is looked at in …
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Stages of imprisonment : Shakespeare and his contemporaries
… applies these findings to the prison scene in Richard II. Chapter three addresses the plays which staged named London prisons at the beginning of the seventeenth$ entury. It discerns domestic, utopian and infernal strains, and analyses the prison scenes themselves as sites of performance and …
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Lincoln's Shakespearean Education
… writings on the topics. The chapter uses Richard II, Macbeth , and King Lear as the primary basis for comparison. The connection between the two are as antagonisms. Lincoln places natural right as a stand in for rightness and right simply (as it upholds republican government) and divine …
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The personnel of English and Welsh castles, 1272-1422
… in particular during the reigns of Edward II and Richard II, and this study will attempt to examine how the castle featured in these crises. In addition, Glendower's revolt at the end of the period saw the great castles of north Wales put to the test for the first time. These moments of …
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Anthologizing Shakespeare, 1593-1603
… gather so much material from a single scene in 'Richard II', the deathbed of John of Gaunt. Poised between this life and the next, dying words were (and are) often seen as proverbially true. That reputation for truthfulness, and their sense of otherworldly detachment, made them especially …