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“What subject can give sentence on his King?”

Dick Riley

Dick Riley's novels and plays include collaboration on the best-selling Black Sunday (with Thomas Harris), Rite of Expiation, and the drama Middleman Out. He lives in White Plains, New York. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Shakespeare’s Consuls, Cardinals, and Kings : A Guide for the Perplexed

Continuum, 2008

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...The first of the English history plays, King John, was set about 1215 CE and is something of an outlier in the cycle. Richard II is the true beginning of Shakespeare’s connected stories of the rise and fall of a series of medieval English...

“Will Fortune never come with both hands full?”

Dick Riley

Dick Riley's novels and plays include collaboration on the best-selling Black Sunday (with Thomas Harris), Rite of Expiation, and the drama Middleman Out. He lives in White Plains, New York. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Shakespeare’s Consuls, Cardinals, and Kings : A Guide for the Perplexed

Continuum, 2008

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...In Richard II, Henry Bolingbroke, exiled by King Richard II and then denied his inheritance as duke of Lancaster, returned from France and deposed the unpopular Richard, making himself King Henry IV. But, as Henry IV shows, his reign...

“God fought for us”

Dick Riley

Dick Riley's novels and plays include collaboration on the best-selling Black Sunday (with Thomas Harris), Rite of Expiation, and the drama Middleman Out. He lives in White Plains, New York. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Shakespeare’s Consuls, Cardinals, and Kings : A Guide for the Perplexed

Continuum, 2008

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...The so-called Hundred Years’ War is generally regarded as having begun in 1337 CE, when England’s King Edward III went to war in France. The previous French king had died without a son to succeed him, and Edward III, whose mother...