New Swan Shakespeare, general editor: Bernard Lott, M.A.
GENERAL NOTES
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includes glossary (p. 239-257), hints to examination candidates (p. 249-257).
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Richard is King. A monarch ordained by God to lead his people. But he is also a man of very human weakness. A man whose vanity threatens to divide the great houses of England and drag his people into a dynastic civil war that will last 100 years.