http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/richard-ii Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:12:48 -0400 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:12:48 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1803/the-politics-of-the-spectacular-and-the-poetics-of-the-specular-in-william-shakespeares-richard-ii By Mohamed Anis Ferchichi - Drawing upon poststructuralist psychoanalysis, the critic contends that the deposed king has unearthed his ‘real’ self that has been buried beneath the regal identity of the body politic. Scott McMillin in his 1984 “Shakespeare’s Richard II: Eyes of Sorrow, Eyes of Desire,[6]” demonstrates how Shakespeare dramatizes the unseen in the play: “This is the problem of making manifest and accessible to normal seeing those qualities of identity which originate in such unseeable characteristics as absence vacancy” (40). Starting off from his analysis of Bushy&... Mon, 28 Sep 2020 08:54 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1803/the-politics-of-the-spectacular-and-the-poetics-of-the-specular-in-william-shakespeares-richard-ii http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/148/the-relationship-between-fathers-and-sons-in-shakespeare By N B - Gaunt is alluding to Richard’s controversial war with Ireland, his greed and vanity that are perpetuated by his many flatterers. Gaunt then tells of his love of England, using the repetition of the word “this” to grab your attention, as well as drive his point home. He describes England as a land fit for kings and of the country’s victories in battle by referring to the Roman god of war, “This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars (2.1.41).” Gaunt even goes as far as to compare England to the biblical garden of Eden, “This other Eden, demi-paradise&rdquo... Sun, 31 Jan 2010 11:29 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/148/the-relationship-between-fathers-and-sons-in-shakespeare http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/118/william-shakespeares-richard-iii-brilliant-schemer-entertaining-villain By Katherine Blakeney - Shakespeare’s Richard is a brilliant schemer and manipulator, completely devoid of scruples of any kind. He also happens to be severely physically deformed. The inevitable feelings of inadequacy, envy, and frustration that this engenders are heightened when his military talents are no longer needed. As he beautifully explains at the beginning of Act I, “all the clouds that loured upon” the house of York are now “in the deep bosom of the ocean buried”. It seems the Wars of the Roses are finally over (for now), and unadapted as Richard is to “idle pleasures&rdquo... Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:00 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/118/william-shakespeares-richard-iii-brilliant-schemer-entertaining-villain