By William Shakespeare
The yr is 1398, and the folks of britain are in a country of unrest. Richard II isn't a favored king, as he places his personal pursuits sooner than the pursuits of his humans. Now he's long past a step too a ways; he has seized the lands and funds of his lifeless uncle.
Richard's cousin, Henry Bolingbroke, used to be intended to be the inheritor to this inheritance, and he's incensed that Richard has taken what's rightfully his. whilst Richard leaves for eire to struggle a conflict, Henry takes good thing about his cousin's absence. He assembles a military and awaits Richard's return.
A story of rivalries and transferring strength buildings, this unabridged variation of the background play via English playwright William Shakespeare was once written round 1595 and released in 1597.
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