# Richard II (Penguin Monarchs)

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- Authors: [Laura Ashe](https://www.bookquiver.com/laura-ashe)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2016-01-28

## Description

Richard II (1377-99) came to the throne as a child, following the long, domineering, martial reign of his grandfather Edward III. He suffered from the disastrous combination of a most exalted sense of his own power and an inability to impress that power on those closest to the throne. Neither trusted nor feared, Richard battled with a whole series of failures and emergencies before finally succumbing to a coup, imprisonment and murder. Laura Ashe's brilliant account of his reign emphasizes the strange gap between Richard's personal incapacity and the amazing cultural legacy of his reign - from the Wilton Diptych to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Piers Plowman and The Canterbury Tales .

## Editions

### Richard II (Penguin Monarchs)

- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4197-990-8
- Published: 2016-01-28
- Language: en_GB