Learn more about Nicholas Hytner’s hit production starring Jonathan Bailey and plan your Richard II play London trip ...

There is plenty of praise, though, for Pierreson’s performance as Henry Bolingbroke. He is “all watchful stillness, coiled strength and rough pragmatism,” writes Hemming, while Curtis hails ...

The first of Shakespeare's Henriad plays, Richard II sees the unlikeable and corrupt king be usurped by his cousin Henry Bolingbroke who goes on to become Henry IV. Directed by Nicholas Hytner ...

Another impeachment or deposition occurred in 1399 when Henry Bolingbroke forced King Richard II to resign, even though he had no intention to ask for a democratic system. Poets and other writers ...

Although a handsome, cultured man he was not a successful ruler and he was deposed as king and imprisoned in 1399 by his cousin Henry Bolingbroke (who became Henry IV), son of John of Gaunt, Duke of ...

Henry Bolingbroke. The lecture is part of a growing partnership between Lancaster University and Litfest which has led to the creation of the Lancaster International Lecture Series, developed ...

The Royal Shakespeare Company calls Richard II’s successor to the throne Henry Bolingbroke, and that’s how I’ve always seen it spelt. I don’t consider myself a purist when it comes to ...

Bullingbroke (aka Bolingbroke), who will go on to be Henry IV. Quick to bare his chest in combat near the start, Pierreson displays a superb instinct for some decidedly knotty language, and helps ...

At its core are two contrasting figures: Richard, convinced of his divine right to rule, and Henry Bolingbroke, a pragmatic leader with real authority. Set against the backdrop of the Windrush ...