Richard II, Shakespeare's Globe, review: The journey from unfeeling monarch to frightened human being pierces the heart

Simon Godwin's lucid and compelling production begins with its own added prologue. The 10-year-old Richard is anointed and crowned with solemn pomp and circumstance on Paul Wills's spectacularly gilded set, with its cross-shaped fore-stage. The Archbishop of Canterbury declares in the exact words later used by the monarch that "Not all the waters in the rough, rude sea/ Can wash the balm off from an anointed king". I…

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