Production Diary 5, Richard II, Royal Shakespeare Company

Production Diary 5 27 September 2013 Professor Jim Shapiro sits in on week five of rehearsals for Richard II. He talks about treason, censorship and seditious material in a radioactive play, which was both shocking and highly topical for audiences when it was written, and six years later sparked an uprising. Professor Shapiro explains connections between Richard II and the reigning monarch, Elizabeth I, which Elizabeth herself, then a childless and ageing monarch, saw all too clearl