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At the end of 2002, the Guardian reported the confirmation of the one-hundred-and-fourth Archbishop of Canterbury at St Paul’s as a ‘divine rite’, a ceremony viewed as ‘arcane and ceremonial’, smacking of ‘anti-quarianism’:
For such a solemn moment the CofE [Church of England] wheeled out not only prayers and hymns but also lawyers in wigs and ancient titles, such as the dean of arches, and some rolling archaic English.1
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Stephen Bates, Guardian (3 December 2002).
All references are to William Shakespeare, King Richard II, ed. Charles R. Forker, The Arden Shakespeare (London: Thomson Learning, 2002).
Joseph Canning, A History of Medieval Political Thought 300–1450 (London and New York: Routledge, 1996), pp. 54–5.
Christopher Given-Wilson (ed.) Chronicles of the Revolution 1397–1400: the Reign of Richard II (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1993), p. 200.
A. G. Dickens, The Age of Humanism and Reformation: Europe in the Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (London: Prentice-Hall International, 1977), p. 149.
Janette Dillon, Performance and Spectacle in Hall’s Chronicle (London: The Society for Theatre Research, 2002), p. 7.
Andrew Gurr and Mariko Ichikawa, Staging in Shakespeare’s Theatres (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 57.
William Shakespeare, King Richard II, ed. Andrew Gurr, New Cambridge Shakespeare (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984), p. 121.
Michael A. R. Graves, Elizabethan Parliaments, 1559–1601 (London and New York: Longman, 1987), p. 3.
Thomas Sackville and Thomas Norton, Gorboduc or Ferrex and Porrex, ed. Irby B. Cauthen, Jr. (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press; London: Edward Arnold, 1970).
Lily B. Campbell (ed.), The Mirror for Magistrates. Edited from Original Texts in the Huntington Library (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1938), p. 113.
Geoffrey Bullough (ed.), Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare. Volume III Earlier English History Plays: Henry VI, Richard III, Richard II (London and New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul; Columbia University Press, 1966), p. 490.
References are to Christopher Marlowe, Edward the Second, ed. Charles R. Forker (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1994).
Ronald Bryden, New Statesman (24 April 1964).
Michael Bogdanov and Michael Pennington, The English Shakespeare Company: the Story of The Wars of the Roses 1986–1989 (London: Nick Hern Books, 1990), p. 24.
RSC programme: Richard II (1990). The quote is from Christopher Hibbert, Benito Mussolini: a Biography (London: Longmans, 1962; Penguin, 1975).
RSC programme: Richard II. The quote is from Marie Louise Bruce, The Usurper King: Henry Bolingbroke 1366–99 (London: Rubicon, 1986).
Harry Eyres, Times (13 September 1991) (Barbican production).
Russell Jackson, ‘Shakespeare on the Stage from 1660 to 1990’, The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare Studies, ed. Stanley Wells (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 187–212 (p. 209).
Christian Tyler, Financial Times (9 December 1995).
Letter to Helen Potter, 22 August 2000. See also Carol Chillington Rutter, ‘Fiona Shaw’s Richard II: the Girl as Player-King as Comic’, Shakespeare Quarterly, 48 (1997), pp. 314–24 (p. 323): ‘Shaw did not see the collapse into comedy that some reviewers complained of in her performance. Rather, comedy intensified and complicated the focus. It was a “demonstration that so many of the games we’re deadly serious about show themselves to be absurd if you slant them, if you skew them just a little obliquely”’.
Charles Spencer, Daily Telegraph (31 March 2000).
Michael Dobson, ‘Shakespeare Performances in England’, Shakespeare Survey, 54 (2001), pp. 246–82 (p. 276).
See John Willett (ed.), Brecht on Theatre: the Development of an Aesthetic (1957; Methuen: London, 1964), p. 229.
Margaret Shewring, Shakespeare in Performance: King Richard II (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 1996), p. 123.
Anthony Arlidge, Shakespeare and the Prince of Love: the Feast of Misrule in the Middle Temple (London: Giles De La Mare Publishers, 2000), p. 28.
See the ‘Introduction’ in Daniel J. Vitkus (ed.), Three Turk Plays from Early Modern England: Selimus, A Christian Turned Turk, and The Renegado (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000).
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Jones, M. (2003). Richard’s Crown. In: Shakespeare’s Culture in Modern Performance. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230597167_5
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