

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.
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Richard II cinematic trailer | Live from Stratford-upon-Avon | Royal Shakespeare Company
Cast

David Tennant
Richard II

Nigel Lindsay
Henry Bolingbroke

Michael Pennington
John of Gaunt

Oliver Ford Davies
Duke of York

Antony Byrne
Mowbray / Duke of Norfolk

Emma Hamilton
The Queen

Oliver Rix
Duke of Aumerle

Sean Chapman
Earl of Northumberland

Jim Hooper
Bishop of Carlisle

Jane Lapotaire
Duchess of Gloucester
Jake Mann
Bagot

Sam Marks
Bushy
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