Author: William Shakespeare
Title: King Richard II
Series: Second Tetralogy (1)[|]
Original publication date: 1597 (Quarto) 1598 (Quarto) 16
Characters: Richard II, John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, Edmund of Langley, duke of York, Henry IV, Edward, duke of Aumerle, Thomas Mowbray, duke of Norfolk, Thomas Holland, duke of Surrey, John Montacute, earl of Salisbury, Lord Berkeley, Henry Percy, 1st earl of Northumberland, Sir Henry Percy / Hotspur, Lord Ross, Lord Willoughby, Lord Fitzwater, Sir Stephen Scroop, Sir Pierce, Isabella of Valois (the Queen), Isabelle of Castile, Duchess of York, Eleanor de Bohun, Duc
First words: Old John of Gaunt, time-honour'd Lancaster, Hast thou, according to thy oath and band, Brought hither Henry Hereford thy bold son, Here to make good the boisterous late appeal, Which then our leisure
Last words: I'll make a voyage to the Holy Land, To wash this blood off from my guilty hand: March sadly after; grace my mournings here; In weeping after this untimely bier.
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