Even when contemplating their own deaths, the two cousins inhabited different worlds. Richard II’s will, written in the ...

Richard II believed that English kings were made ... drama would end – with Richard deposed in 1399 by his cousin Henry of Bolingbroke, who took the throne to become King Henry IV.

The film begins as KING RICHARD II (Ben Whishaw) tries to resolve a bitter dispute between his cousin, HENRY BOLINGBROKE (Rory Kinnear) and THOMAS MOWBRAY (James Purefoy). BOLINGBROKE has been ...

England, tutted fifteenth-century Frenchmen, is where they kill their kings. Though the comment’s smug self-satisfaction ...

Although a handsome, cultured man he was not a successful ruler and he was deposed as king and imprisoned in 1399 by his cousin Henry Bolingbroke (who became ... Sage and elegant, lawfully Richard II, ...

Image: Members of the Old Vic Theatre Company appearing in the radio production of Richard II ... and Harry Andrews (Henry Bolingbroke). The Third Programme was launched on 29 September 1946 ...