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Article: ARTS' 'Richard II' is intense

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July 14, 2009
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All of Shakespeare's "history plays" were political works that he wrote with great care to tread carefully regarding the rulers of the day. The last of the Plantagenets ? the royal family of England for three centuries ? had been executed by Henry VIII years before Shakespeare's birth, but people of his time were as likely as those today to draw parallels between stories about historical characters on one hand and public figures on the other. The Plantagenets were long gone, but some of the issues raised by Henry Bolingbroke's overthrow of Richard II might have seemed uncomfortably topical in the last years of Tudor rule.

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