TY - BOOK AU - Shakespeare, William AU - Ure, Peter, ed. TI - King Richard II. SN - 174435762 PY - 1997/// CY - United Kingdom PB - T. Nelson & Sons N1 - At head of title : The Arden edition of the woks of William Shakespeare N2 - To Shakespeare's contemporaries, Richard II was a balanced dramatisation of the central political and constitutional issue of the time: how to cope with an unjust ruler. But over the last century or so, the play has come to be regarded as the poetic fall of a tragic hero. The introduction to this edition provides a full context for both the Shakespearean and the modern views of King Richard's fall ER -