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1. I pick Hamlet for you, but if you don’t want to use it you can pick another drama. You can go to the liberty library to get some more scholarly dramas that’s no problem. For source you can use www.shakespeare-online.com, internetshakespeare.uvic.ca, library.umd.umich.edu/Find/alpha.php, library.temple.edu/databases/a-z,
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1. ^ Forker page 507 note 24 2. ^ Gurr (1990: 55) 3. ^ Shapiro, I. A. "Richard II or Richard III or..." Shakespeare Quarterly 9 )1958): 206 4. ^ The Riverside Shakespeare: Second Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997, 845. 5. ^ Elliott, John R. "History and Tragedy in Richard II"Studies in English Literature, 1500–1900, Vol. 8, No. 2, Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama (Spring, 1968), 253–271. 6. ^ Richmond, Hugh M. "Personal Identity and Literary Personae: A Study in Historical Psychology,"PMLA 90.2 (Mar. 1975), 214–217. 7. ^ Elliott 253–267. 8. ^ Riverside 845. 9. ^ a b c d Bate, Jonathan (2008). Soul of the Age. London: Penguin. pp. 256–286. ISBN 978-0-670-91482-1. 10. ^ Schoenbaum, Samuel (2004). Richard II and the realities of Power. Cambrdige: Cambridge. pp. 101–102. Text "0-521-83623-9" ignored (help) 11. ^ Kantorowicz, H. Ernst. The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Medieval Political Theology. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1957, 24–31. 12. ^ Kantorowicz 24–31. 13. ^ Thompson, Karl F. "Richard II, Martyr." Shakespeare Quarterly 8.2 (Spring 1957), 159–166.[1] 14. ^ Newlin, T. Jeanne. Richard II: Critical Essays. New York: Garland Publishing Inc, 1984, 95–103. 15. ^ F. E. Halliday, A Shakespeare Companion 1564–1964, Baltimore, Penguin, 1964; pp. 262 and 412-13. 16. ^ The Independent (London). 21 March 2008 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/paul-scofield-oscarwinning-actor-whose-phenomenal-range-was-unmatched-in-his-generation-798984.html |url= missing title (help). 17. ^

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