Summary of Richard II and Characters
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Characters in Richard II
Lord Ross
Sir Stephen Scroop
Sir Piers Exton
Richard II of England
Lord Walter Fitzwalter
Henry Percy
Henry Percy
Lord William Willoughby
Lord Thomas Mowbray
Lord Marshal
Bushy
Lord Berkeley
Bagot
John of Gaunt
Henry Bolingbroke
Green
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This drama is one of the
great history themed plays by William Shakespeare. Richard II was a king
by virtue of the divine right of kings, he is intelligent but weak. John
of Gaunt the Duke of Lancaster is the king's uncle and father of the
king's rival, the popular Henry Bolingbroke. Bolingbroke and many nobles
rebel against the King and Richard yields and Henry escorts him to
London where he is confined to the Tower of London and then Pomfret
Castle. He then announces his own coronation as Henry IV. When
Bolingbroke, as the new king, asks whether anyone will rid him of
Richard, Sir Pierce of Exton assumes Bolingbroke wants him dead. Exton
kills the king, who dies bravely. Exton reminds Henry that he wished him
dead. King Henry who is filled of guilt, banishes Exton.
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