First night: Richard II, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon

They covered themselves in glory five years ago with Hamlet; now David Tennant and Gregory Doran join forces again for this lucid and gripping account of Richard II. Having played the most intellectually searching of Shakespeare's protagonists, who is painfully miscast as a revenge hero, Tennant " in splendid form here " trains his talents on the most self-absorbed and inward-looking of the Bard's monarchs, who is fa…

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