Article: Monty Python star speaks about Richard II at U. Penn

Colin Kavanaugh
University Wire
10-11-2007
(Daily Pennsylvanian) (U-WIRE) PHILADELPHIA -- From the man who brought you Monty Python and the Holy Grail, get ready for ... Richard II?

That's right: Wednesday night, former Monty Python member Terry Jones addressed a packed room in the University of Pennsylvania's Rodin College House's Rooftop Lounge on the historical legacy of one of England's most notorious monarchs.

Jones said that Richard II, who ruled England between 1377 and 1399, is often portrayed as "a very naughty boy" whose extravagance and censorship cost him the throne, but that he was a righteous king who was the unfortunate "victim of spin" by English historians of the time.

Jones ...

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