This week Samantha Blinn, Jane May, Nicholas Koy Santillo, Sam Gilroy, Ellyn Heald, Sam Gibbs & Ariana Karp examine:

Fissures within Bolingbroke's faction
Richard's first and second 'Aria' moments…"For god's sake, let us sit upon the ground" and "Down, down I come like glistering Phaeton"
Performance history of Richard II
Power through words typically feminized versus the 'masculine' power through action
Cycle of ascension and descension and the balance of the two
Systems of Elizabethan imagery working upon each other: the four elements, the five humors
The instability of identity through language