King Richard II

Synopsis: A version of the play performed on a bare stage. David Birney is Richard.
Series: Shakespearean Drama
Language: English
Country: United States
Medium: Film
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Year of release: 1981
Duration: 172 mins

Notes: Released on DVD 2002, extras include synopsis, biography, quotations, geneaology, scene selection.
Reviews: Rothwell, Kenneth S. and Annabelle Henkin Melzer, Shakespeare on Screen: An International Filmography and Videography (London: Mansell, 1990), p. 494.

Forker, Charles R., Richard II on Screen’ in Shakespeare Survey 61: Shakespeare, Sound and Screen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008). p. 63-68.

Shakespeare, "King Richard II". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/shakespeare/search/index.php/title/11878 (Accessed 25 Nov 2024)

David Birney	King Richard II
Mary-Joan Negro	Queen Isabel
John McLiam	John of Gaunt
Paul Shenar	Bolingbroke
Alvah Stanley	Sir Piers Exton
Charles Berendt	Gardener
Dan Mason	Sir Stephen Scroope
DeVeren Bookwalter	Duke of Aumerle
Drew Synder	Groom of King Richard’s stable
Jay Robinson	Gardener
Jay T. Loudenback	Bushy
Jeff Pomerantz	Thomas Mowbray
John Devlin	Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland
Kate Fitzmaurice	Lady attending the Queen
Lanny Broyles	Keeper of the prison at Pomfret
Logan Ramsey	Bishop of Carlisle
Matt Conley	Lord Willoughby
Michael Cumming	Bagot
Nan Martin	Duchess of York
Nicholas Hammond	Harry Percy
Peter Maclean	Edmund of Langley, Duke of York
William Gamble	Green
William H Bassett	Duke of Surrey
William H Bassett

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