RSC Live: Richard II

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

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