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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 ...

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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, ...

This joint production of Nashville Shakespeare Festival and Lipscomb University offers a fairly rare mounting of the Bard’s history play based on the life of King Richard II of England, who ruled 1377 ...