
RSC Live: Richard II
2013•180 min•
★7.5
DramaHistory
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.
Cast & Crew

David Tennant
Richard II

Nigel Lindsay
Henry Bolingbroke

Michael Pennington
John of Gaunt

Oliver Ford Davies
Duke of York

Antony Byrne
Mowbray / Duke of Norfolk

Emma Hamilton
The Queen

Oliver Rix
Duke of Aumerle

Sean Chapman
Earl of Northumberland

Jim Hooper
Bishop of Carlisle

Jane Lapotaire
Duchess of Gloucester

DirectorGregory Doran
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