Synopsis
Part Two of a fifteen-part BBC series comprising Shakespeare’s history plays from Richard II to Richard III (the two tetralogies). This is the second and final part of Richard II.
Further Information
Similar plays, poems and sonnets
An Age of Kings | Richard II
Part One of a fifteen-part BBC series comprising Shakespeare’s history plays from Richard II to Richard III (the two tetralogies). The first episode achieves a sustained and vigorous make-believe in an age of power, mystery and frailty of the Medieval crown.
Eye to Eye | Night in the City
Denis Mitchell narrates a programme looking at the people who inhabit the streets of a provincial city (Manchester) at night. Among the people encountered is a busker who entertains a theatre queue with speeches from Shakespeare.