Richard II

2012

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Part of the ‘Hollow Crown’, a series of adaptations of Shakespeare’s history plays for the BBC’s 2012 Cultural Olympiad. Richard II follows the last two years of King Richard II’s life and reign, focusing on his loss of power and the rise of Henry Bolingbroke, later Henry IV.