A portrait hangs in the nave of Westminster Abbey, and if a picture is indeed worth a thousand words, this one preaches a veritable sermon on the absence of humility! A painting of King Richard II, it ...

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 ...

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, ...