La vie et la mort du roi Richard II
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Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_II_(play) Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_II_(Shakespeare) Release date is 2007-05-02
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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.)
Richard II, King of England, 1367-1400 -- Drama Tragedies (Drama) Historical drama Great Britain -- History -- Richard II, 1377-1399 -- Drama