UC Richard II Author:Harold Bloom From Harold Bloom's now-canonical book Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human come the individual meditations on Shakespeare's comedies, tragedies, and historical plays. — Each edition in the Harold Bloom Shakespeare Series will include the full text of the play, with editorial revisions by Harold Bloom. — Harold Bloom on Richard II... more »:
"It is better to think of Richard II as a chronicle rather than a tragedy, and of Richard himself neither as a hero nor a villain but as a victim, primarily of his own self-indulgence, yet also of the power of his imagination."« less