Forget Hamlet, Lear or Macbeth – the Bard saved his sharpest psychological insights and finest poetry for Richard II ...

Shakespeare’s play about 12th Century power struggles, political intrigues and the battle to hold on to the crown was performed in Northampton, at a location associated with the real-life monarch.

John, the illegitimate King of England, goes to war with France, who backs the rightful heir to England's throne, Arthur. The two armies meet outside the town of Angiers, and both campaign ...

Stories written after his reign helped create this view. Shakespeare wrote a play in the 16th century where the character of King John was weak and murderous. Tales of the outlaw Robin Hood also ...

As Shakespeare depicts the king’s reign from June 1483 to August 1485, Richard III’s kingdom was wrought with chaos, confusion and corruption that fueled civil conflict in England.

This is not the familiar Shakespeare of the time of Elizabeth ... from the masterworks of Jacobean theatre to the King James Bible to the work of John Donne. In government, science and finance ...