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Historical Works of William Shakespeare: King Richard II: Act I

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Shakespeare, William

Shakespeare, William
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Critic: Scanlan, Mary H.
Affiliation: Associate Professor Of English, Seton Hall University

King Richard II: Act I

Act I: Scene 1

The play begins in the year 1398, at the court of the medieval English
King Richard II. This first scene is angry in mood and ominous. Richard is
seated on his throne surrounded by courtiers. Peremptorily, he asks his uncle.
John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, if Gaunt has brought to court, as he had
promised to do, his son and heir, Henry Bolingbroke. Bolingbroke has accused
Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk, of treason.

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