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Part of: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (The Oxford Shakespeare) The Tragedy of King Richard the Second

Shakespeare’s Richard II is a puzzling play about a puzzling historical figure. Is Richard II a weak king who is shamefully deposed? Is he a noble king who chooses to abdicate to spare his people the horrors of war? This edition comes from the 1916 Oxford University Press edition of all of Shakespeare’s plays and poems.

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