- Paperback: 96 pages
- Publisher: Samuel French Ltd (1935)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0573013799
- ISBN-13: 978-0573013799
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 13.2 x 0.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,897,268 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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It is a bold deed to write a play about Richard II in the shade of Shakespeare, but this play covers some ground that Shakespeare did not. Shakespeare's play begins with Bolingbroke's challenging Mowbray to a the duel which Richard will forbid. Gordon Daviot's play begins several years earlier, with the young Richard being bullied by his uncle Gloucester, who, together with other nobles, destroyed Richard's friends. It then shows how Richard gradually reasserted himself and avenged himself on the nobles who had humiliated him. Only in the second half does this play deal with the period in Shakespear's play.
Gordon Daviot's Richard is not very different from Shakespeare's in character, though of course nothing like as eloquent; and this is prose rather than poetry. Perhaps the strength of Richard comes out better than it does in Shakespeare when the king is shown to have got the better of his nobles. And he is shown as not relishing perpetual wars as his nobles do - we are reminded that when the play was first put on in February of 1932, the bloodshed of the Great War was vivid in the minds of the audience, and Hitler had not yet come come to power. The story of Richard bears retelling, and it is done in a workmanlike manner, with all the longueurs of scene-setting in unrealistically lengthy speeches that historical plays (including Shakespeare's) often require; but it is difficult to see these days quite what made for such a long run in London. Doubtlessly the fact that John Gielgud played Richard and Gwen Ffrangçon-Davies his queen had something to do with it.
Gordon Daviot's Richard is not very different from Shakespeare's in character, though of course nothing like as eloquent; and this is prose rather than poetry. Perhaps the strength of Richard comes out better than it does in Shakespeare when the king is shown to have got the better of his nobles. And he is shown as not relishing perpetual wars as his nobles do - we are reminded that when the play was first put on in February of 1932, the bloodshed of the Great War was vivid in the minds of the audience, and Hitler had not yet come come to power. The story of Richard bears retelling, and it is done in a workmanlike manner, with all the longueurs of scene-setting in unrealistically lengthy speeches that historical plays (including Shakespeare's) often require; but it is difficult to see these days quite what made for such a long run in London. Doubtlessly the fact that John Gielgud played Richard and Gwen Ffrangçon-Davies his queen had something to do with it.
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Fearlessly rushing in where Shakespeare trod
19 April 2009
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It is a bold deed to write a play about Richard II in the shade of Shakespeare, but this play covers some ground that Shakespeare did not. Shakespeare's play begins with Bolingbroke's challenging Mowbray to a the duel which Richard will forbid. Gordon Daviot's play begins several years earlier, with the young Richard being bullied by his uncle Gloucester, who, together with his noble allies, destroyed Richard's friends. It then shows how Richard gradually reasserted himself and avenged himself on the nobles who had humiliated him. Only in the second half does this play deal with the period in Shakespear's play.
Gordon Daviot's Richard is not very different from Shakespeare's in character, though of course nothing like as eloquent; and this is prose rather than poetry. Perhaps the strength of Richard comes out better than it does in Shakespeare when the king is shown to have got the better of his nobles. And he is shown as not relishing perpetual wars as his nobles do - we are reminded that when the play was first put on in February of 1932, the bloodshed of the Great War was vivid in the minds of the audience, and Hitler had not yet come come to power. The story of Richard bears retelling, and it is done in a workmanlike manner, with all the longueurs of scene-setting in unrealistically lengthy speeches that historical plays (including Shakespeare's) often require; but it is difficult to see these days quite what made for such a long run in London. Doubtlessly the fact that John Gielgud played Richard and Gwen Ffrangçon-Davies his queen had something to do with it.
Gordon Daviot's Richard is not very different from Shakespeare's in character, though of course nothing like as eloquent; and this is prose rather than poetry. Perhaps the strength of Richard comes out better than it does in Shakespeare when the king is shown to have got the better of his nobles. And he is shown as not relishing perpetual wars as his nobles do - we are reminded that when the play was first put on in February of 1932, the bloodshed of the Great War was vivid in the minds of the audience, and Hitler had not yet come come to power. The story of Richard bears retelling, and it is done in a workmanlike manner, with all the longueurs of scene-setting in unrealistically lengthy speeches that historical plays (including Shakespeare's) often require; but it is difficult to see these days quite what made for such a long run in London. Doubtlessly the fact that John Gielgud played Richard and Gwen Ffrangçon-Davies his queen had something to do with it.
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