Richard II is charismatic, eloquent and loved by his friends. And a disastrous King – dishonest, capricious and politically incompetent. Echoing down the centuries is the perennial problem: how to ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Relics from the tomb of the medieval King Richard II have been found by an archivist researching the papers of the National Portrait Gallery's first director George Scharf, the ...

What do you do with a bad king? And what do you do when that bad king is (allegedly) appointed by God? Shakespeare’s Richard II is a play that asks us, among other things, what it means to have power, ...

The Guthrie Theater has announced the cast and creative team for its production of the History Plays (Richard II, Henry IV and Henry V) by William Shakespeare, directed by Joseph Haj and performed in ...

Smith Street Stage is performing Shakespeare’s rarely-produced history, “Richard II,” at the Mark O’Donnell Theater ahead of the presidential election this fall. The show aims to shed light on the ...

Thirty years ago, when the Seattle Repertory Theatre was in shaky shape, a production of Shakespeare's "King Richard II" turned the company's luck around. Today the Seattle Shakespeare Company is ...