Comments by "Helen Trope" (@heliotropezzz333) on "John of Gaunt chastises King Richard - The Hollow Crown: Richard II - BBC Two" video.

  1. Adarcus Who is manipulating him? Richard was once a boy King and may have been manipulated then but not when he was an adult. He was not a very good King except in his support of the arts and unlike Henry IV who ousted him, he did not persecute heretics, but Shakespeare makes him sympathetic when he loses power.
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  2. Adarcus ? Richard was already the King when he drew the sword.
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  3. John of Gaunt was dying anyway.
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  4. Poetic Elizabethan English
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