King Richard II

Charles R. Forker (1927-2014) was Professor Emeritus of English at Indiana University, USA. Nicholas F. Radel is Professor of English at Furman University, Greenville, USA. His publications include Understanding Edmund White (2013) and The Puritan Origins of American Sex: Religion, Sexuality, and National Identity in American Literature, co-edited with Tracy Fessenden and Magdalena Zaborowska (2001).

GENERAL EDITOR'S PREFACE
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION TO REVISED EDITION
INTRODUCTION

1 EDWARD CAPELL, various notes on Richard II, 1780
2 EDMOND MALONE and others, supplementary remarks on Richard II, 1780
3 THOMAS DAVIES, on the deposition scene in Richard II, 1784
4 EDMOND MALONE, edition of Shakespeare, 1790
5 JOSEPH RITSON, Shakespeare's part-authorship of Richard II and other notes, 1793
6 GEORGE STEEVENS, notes on Richard II, 1793
7 GEORGE CHALMERS, on the date and political significance of Richard II, 1799
8 CHARLES DIBDIN, Richard II inferior to Richard III, 1800
9 FRANCIS DOUCE, Richard II and the memento mori tradition, 1807
10 CHARLES LAMB, Marlowe's Edward II compared to Richard II, 1808
11 SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, on Richard II and the history play, 1813
12 WILLIAM HAZLITT, a critique of Edmund Kean as Richard II, 1815
13 RICHARD WROUGHTON, advertisement of an adaptation of Richard II, 1815
14 A.W. VON SCHLEGEL, Richard II and the unity of Shakespeare's history plays, 1815
15 NATHAN DRAKE, a sympathetic view of Richard II, 1817
16 WILLIAM HAZLITT, characterization in Richard II, 1817
17 JOHN HAMILTON REYNOLDS, the poetry of Richard II and the other histories, 1817
18 AUGUSTINE SKOTTOWE, Richard II and the truth of history, 1824
19 GEORGE DANIEL, prefatory remarks on Richard II, 1831
20 HENRY NELSON COLERIDGE, another version of Coleridge on Richard II, 1836
21 HENRY HALLAM, on the scene of Aumerle's pardon in Richard II, 1837-9
22 THOMAS CAMPBELL, general comments on Richard II, 1838
23 THOMAS PEREGRINE COURTENAY, Richard II and history, 1838
24 CHARLES KNIGHT, the pictorial edition of Richard II, 1838
25 JOHN PAYNE COLLIER, on the existence of two plays on Richard II’s reign, 1842
26 HERMANN ULRICI, kingship and the morality of Richard II, 1846
27 GULIAN C. VERPLANCK, critical remarks on Richard II, 1847
28 HARTLEY COLERIDGE, a comment on Richard II, 1851
29 FRANCOIS P.G. GUIZOT, history, character, and divine right in Richard II, 1852
30 HENRY N. HUDSON, historical truth and characterization in Richard II, 1852
31 HENRY REED, history as tragedy in Richard II, 1855
32 WILLIAM WATKISS LLOYD, the political morality of Richard II, 1856
33 RICHARD GRANT WHITE, Richard II, Daniel's Civil Wars, and the play's
date, 1859
34 G.G. GERVINUS, the characterization and artistry of Richard II, 1863
35 JOHN A. HERAUD, the play's divided authorship and Shakespeare's attitude
to divine right, 1865
36 HENRY N. HUDSON, further observations on Richard II, 1872
37 RICHARD SIMPSON, Richard II and Elizabethan politics, 1874
38 EDWARD DOWDEN, the immaturity of Richard II and the realism of
Bolingbroke, 1875
39 A.C.SWINBURNE, an unsympathetic view of Richard II, 1875
40 FJ. FURNIVALL, the topicality of Richard II and the character of its protagonist, 1877
41 DENTONJ. SNIDER, Richard II and the right of revolution, 1877
42 P.A. DANIEL, time problems in Richard II, 1879
43 OSCAR WILDE, Shakespeare's concern with costume in Richard II, 1885
44 A.W. VERITY, Marlowe's influence on Richard II, 1886
45 RICHARD GRANT WHITE, Richard II/and Richard II compared, 1886
46 HAVELOCK ELLIS, on the inferiority of Richard II to Marlowe's Edward II, 1887
47 FRANK A. MARSHALL, the theatrical weakness of Richard II, 1888
48 WALTER PATER, ritual and lyricism in Richard II, 1889
49 P.A. DANIEL, a nonpolitical reason for omitting the deposition scene from the early quartos of Richard II, 1890
50 CYRIL RANSOME, character disclosure and dramatic symmetry in Richard II,
1890
51 E.K. CHAMBERS, the artistry of Richard II, 1891
52 C.H. HERFORD, miscellaneous comments on Richard II, 1893
53 BEVERLEY E. WARNER, characterization and history in Richard II, 1894
54 BARRETT WENDELL, Richard II as an archaic masterpiece, 1894
55 FREDERICK S. BOAS, diseased will and sentimentalism in Richard II, 1896
56 GEORGBRANDES, Edward II and Richard II contrasted, 1898
57 C.E. MONTAGUE, on F.R. Benson's portrayal of Richard II, 1899
58 SIDNEY LEE, Benson's Richard II and the acting of minor roles, 1900
59 W.B. YEATS, Richard II and Henry V as emblems of refinement and vulgarity, 1901
60 FREDERICKS. BOAS, the relation of Woodstock to Richard II, 1902
61 FELIX E. SCHELLING, Shakespeare's independence in Richard II, 1902
62 H.F. PREVOST BATTERSBY, on Herbert Beerbohm Tree's Richard II, 1903
63 RICHARD G. MOULTON, Richard II, the divine right of kings, and the pendulum of history, 1903
64 A.C. SWINBURNE, an iconoclastic view of Richard II, 1903
65 A.C. BRADLEY, on Richard II and tragedy, 1904
66 STOPFORD A. BROOKE, purgation through tragic suffering in Richard II, 1905
67 MORTON LUCE, Richard II a disappointing failure, 1905
68 GEORGE PIERCE BAKER, Richard II and the weaknesses and strengths of the chronicle play, 1907
69 SIR WALTER RALEIGH, weakness and the philosophic strain in the character of Richard II, 1907
70 GEORGE SAINTSBURY, Richard II as an imperfect but rhetorically unique drama, 1907
71 ASHLEY H. THORNDIKE, structure, style, and characterization in Richard II, 1908
72 A.C. BRADLEY, further comments on Richard II, 1909
73 G.S. GORDON, patriotism and the absence of moral order in Richard II,
1909
74 CHARLOTTE PORTER, the subtle artistry of act I, 1910
75 C.F. TUCKER BROOKE, miscellaneous comments on Richard II, 1911
76 JOHN MASEFIELD, Richard II as a tragedy of double treachery, 1911
77 HARDIN CRAIG, from an introduction to Richard II, 1912
78 IVOR B.JOHN, from an introduction to Richard II, 1912
79 BRANDER MATTHEWS, dramaturgical weakness and psychological strength in Richard II, 1913
80 LACY COLLISON-MORLEY, Alessandro Manzoni's anti-classical perspective on Richard II, 1916
81 WILHELM CREIZENACH, miscellaneous comments on Richard II, 1916
82 J.A.R. MARRIOTT, historical context and Richard II as a tragedy of political amateurism, 1918
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