RSC Live: Richard II
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
2013 · 3h · Not Rated Drama, History
Overview
A monarch ordained by God to lead his people. But he is also a man of very human weakness. A man whose vanity threatens to divide the great houses of England and drag his people into a dynastic civil war that will last 100 years.
Director and cast
- David Tennant as Richard II
- Nigel Lindsay as Henry Bolingbroke
- Michael Pennington as John of Gaunt
- Oliver Ford Davies as Duke of York
- Antony Byrne as Mowbray / Duke of Norfolk
- Emma Hamilton as The Queen
- Oliver Rix as Duke of Aumerle
- Sean Chapman as Earl of Northumberland
- Jim Hooper as Bishop of Carlisle
- Jane Lapotaire Cast
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