La vie et la mort du roi Richard II by William Shakespeare
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"La vie et la mort du roi Richard II" by William Shakespeare is a history play written in 1595. It dramatizes the final two years of King Richard II's reign, as English noblemen conspire to overthrow their monarch. The play opens with Richard arbitrating a dispute between feuding nobles, but his questionable decisions reveal fatal flaws in his leadership. When he seizes his cousin Bolingbroke's inheritance, rebellion erupts. Richard faces invasion, betrayal,
and ultimately loses his crown to Bolingbroke, who becomes Henry IV, setting in motion a tragic chain of events. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 |
|---|---|
| Translator | Guizot, François, 1787-1874 |
| Title | La vie et la mort du roi Richard II |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_II_(play) Wikipedia page about this book: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_II_(Shakespeare) |
| Credits |
Produced by Paul Murray, Rénald Lévesque and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at gallica.bnf.fr) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 78.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PR: Language and Literatures: English literature |
| Subject | Richard II, King of England, 1367-1400 -- Drama |
| Subject | Tragedies (Drama) |
| Subject | Historical drama |
| Subject | Great Britain -- History -- Richard II, 1377-1399 -- Drama |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 21277 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-21277-7 |
| Release Date | May 2, 2007 |
| Last Update | Jan 2, 2021 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 181 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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