William Shakespeare’s Richard II was first performed in 1595, but rather than a big production at one of the Elizabethan playhouses, it was presented at the house of Edward Hoby, a scholar, soldier, diplomat, and member of Parliament. By this point in his career, Shakespeare had already written at least four of his history plays (all three parts of Henry VI and Richard III), and the genre was proving to be a popular one. Many of Shakespeare’s contemporaries also wrote history plays, largely inspired by Holinshed’s Chronicles (a large volume of English, Irish, and Scottish histories). In the
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