Richard II A True King's Fall Author:Kathryn Warner Richard II is a figure famous in England's national myths?the king who went insane, the narcissist, the tyrant of Shakespeare's play. History regards his rule either as that of a superhuman monarch or a crazed and vicious ruler. But Richard II was a complex and conflicted man?a person with faults and shortcomings thrust into a role that demanded... more » greatness. Here, Kathryn Warner offers the first modern biography of Richard II. An aesthete and patron of the arts as well as a person troubled by a much-maligned "personality disorder," Richard II here emerges from behind the mask of a theatrical character.« less