The tragedy of a self-centred king whose treachery causes his own destruction. King Richard II was an inept and incompetent monarch who could not fend off his enemies in Ireland without the unity and support of his English noblemen. Yet he makes an enemy of the influential Bolingbroke his own cousin by seizing his property. Bolingbroke leading an army of discontented English noblemen rebels against Richard who succumbs and is imprisoned where he meets his death as Bolingbroke is
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