Join Jane May, Sam Gibbs, Ellyn Heald, Nicholas Koy Santillo and Ariana Karp as we tackle Act II and discuss the Queen and her relationship to Richard's advisors: Bushy, Bagot and Green. We talk about Shakespeare's device of conveying treasonous information from one character to another within both this and other history plays. We ponder whether Richard II could be called…a family drama. We also delve into John of Gaunt's fabulous "this England" speech and discuss the bumbling Duke of York!
Hans Holbein the Younger's famous painting "The Ambassadors." Note the perspective manipulation on the skull in the bottom center of the picture and compare to the language of Bushy in Act II, scene II as he discusses 'perspectives with Queen Isabel.