Ruling by divine right, but himself ruled by caprice, King Richard exiles Henry Bolingbroke and seizes his father’s vast estates. While Richard is distracted by a rebellion in Ireland, Bolingbroke returns to England, intent on recovering his rightful property and, with the support of his disgruntled peers, perhaps seizing the crown itself.
Dazzlingly eloquent and ceremonious, Richard II invests a weak and self-dramatising man with tragic status and represents Shakespeare’s most searching exploration of the meaning of kingship and the rising powers that can destroy it.
Cast Andrew Marr ... Himself - Presenter Razia Iqbal ... Herself - Presenter
Mark Rylance ... King Richard II John McEnery ... John of Gaunt / Head Gardener / Keeper Liam Brennan ... Henry Bolingbroke later King Henry IV Terence McGinity ... Thomas Mowbray / Second Gardener / Groom William Osbourne ... Duchess of Gloucester / Willoughby / Bishop of Carlisle (as William Osborne) Albie Woodington ... Earl of Northumberland Chu Omambala ... Duke of Aumerle Richard Glaves ... Sir Henry Green / Lady Justin Shevlin ... Sir John Bushy Sir Piers of Exton Patrick Brennan ... Sir William Bagot / Welsh Captain / Scroop / First Gardener Bill Stewart ... Duke of York Michael Brown ... Queen Isabel Peter Shorey ... Sir William Ross / Duchess of York Patrick Toomey ... Servingman / Earl of Salisbury / Baron Fitzwater Gerald Kyd ... Sir Harry Percy
Tim Carroll ... Himself Corin Redgrave ... Himself
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