Our participants for this episode are Jane May, Sam Gibbs, Brittany Chandler, Nicholas Koy Santillo & Ariana Karp. Join us as we scratch our heads discussing the concept of primogeniture, puzzling through the rules and who is related to whom. For a very thorough Richard II genealogy, click here.
Other topics include:
- Divine right of kings
- The birth of obsessive interiority
- Classism
- The move from feudalism and chivalry to modern politics
- Ascension and Descension
- Private moments vs public moments vs private moments in public
Ceremony and formalism in Act I. 1965 production: Alan Howard as Bolingbroke, John Neville as Richard in the centre, and John Tordoff as Mowbray