The Life and Death of King Richard II (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Life and Death of King Richard IINemesis which followed the usurpation of Bolingbroke. The principal cases are: in Richard H, the Queen, who was a child of eleven, is introduced as a grown woman, Bolingbroke engages in a courtship of the common people, Bolingbroke and Richard ride into London together, the former in triumph, the latter in humiliation, the Queen has an interview with Richard after his return to London, the manner in which Exton received his hint to murder Richard, the strain in which the King soliloquizes just before he is murdered. In 1 and 2 Henry IV, Hotspur is represented as a young man pitted against the Prince, who is apparently of the same age (this is also the case in Richard H), he engages in combat with the Prince at Shrewsbury, the Prince rescues his father from the Douglas, Glendower is absent from the battle, in the last interview between the Prince and his father, Henry laments his inability to make a crusade and the manner in which he has achieved the crown, he advises the Prince to busy the minds of his subjects with a great enterprise. Daniel and Shakespeare may both have been following some source as yet unknown, but, in at least one instance, Daniel apologizes for the liberty he has taken (see Epistle Dedicatorie in 1609 ed.) in making the young Queen older than she was, an addition characteristic of Daniel. There are comparatively few close verbal te semblances: but it looks as if Shakespeare had a general knowledge of Daniel's Civil Wars, and if so, that Richard H, as well as 1 and 2 Henry IV, is later than 1595. It should also be said in this connection that Richard H points strongly forward in many of its scenes to the later plays of the series, and is in perfect harmony with them in its under lying ideas.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.