Nick Cox argues that the work of Michel Foucault provides the means for understanding the Elizabethan governments strategies of discipline and surveillance.

By Michael Best, University of Victoria.

A short guide to the history of Richard II.

Summary and analysis written by Harvard students with research provided through links, a free summary, historical background and author information.

Nineteenth-century engravings give two possible ways of staging the gage-throwing scene before Richard in Act I.

A review of the Derek Jacobi production, by Joseph Locket.

Full text of the play.

Scene-indexed HTML of the complete text. Summary, search feature, and author information.

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presented by The Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

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By Ruth Underhill, from Shakespeare by Individual Studies.

University of Virginia's electronic text center.

A listing of book and play titles taken from Richard II.

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