Royal Shakespeare Company - Richard II

November. 13,2013      
Rating:
8.4
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

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
Jane Lapotaire as  Duchess of Gloucester
Sam Marks as  Bushy

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