Download or read book Shakespeare's History Plays: Richard II to Henry V, the Making of a King written by C W R D Moseley and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part I provides some contexts for what is inevitably our reading of the history plays, so that perhaps we may guess at the impact they may have had on their contemporaries. The author suggests, by implication, a way of approaching Elizabethan drama that may be generally useful. Part II is a consideration of what the author thinks are some major issues in the Ricardian plays.