Overview
A monarch ordained by God to lead his people. But he is also a man of very human weakness. A man whose vanity threatens to divide the great houses of England and drag his people into a dynastic civil war that will last 100 years.
Production
Royal Shakespeare Company
Cast & Characters
David Tennant
Richard II
Nigel Lindsay
Henry Bolingbroke
Michael Pennington
John of Gaunt
Oliver Ford Davies
Duke of York
Antony Byrne
Mowbray / Duke of Norfolk
Emma Hamilton
The Queen
Oliver Rix
Duke of Aumerle
Sean Chapman
Earl of Northumberland
Jim Hooper
Bishop of Carlisle
Jane Lapotaire
Duchess of Gloucester
Jake Mann
Bagot
Sam Marks
Bushy
Directors & Crew
Gregory Doran
Director
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