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Shakespeare's Henriad in an Era of Regime Change

By TOBY ZINMAN

"Can no man tell me of my unthrifty son?/'Tis full three months since I did see him last" (King Richard II, V, iii, 1-2).

Where is Hal? His father's question has been answered many times this theater season, since Shakespeare's Henriad (conventionally Richard II; King Henry IV, Part I; King Henry IV, Part II; King Henry V), has been on stage...

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