Royal Shakespeare Company - Richard II

Nov 13, 2013

3h 0m

★ 7.5

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

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.

Genres

Drama

History

Production Companies

Royal Shakespeare Company

Royal Shakespeare Company - Richard II Trailers

Cast

Richard II

David Tennant

Henry Bolingbroke

Nigel Lindsay

John of Gaunt

Michael Pennington

Duke of York

Oliver Ford Davies

Mowbray / Duke of Norfolk

Antony Byrne

The Queen

Emma Hamilton

Duke of Aumerle

Oliver Rix

Earl of Northumberland

Sean Chapman

Bishop of Carlisle

Jim Hooper

Duchess of Gloucester

Jane Lapotaire

Bagot

Jake Mann

Bushy

Sam Marks

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