Shakespeare’s Richard II deals with a civil society in crisis and the depositing of a ruler. Considering the fact that John Locke in his Second Treatise of Government writers about the nature of a civil society and the dissolution of government, how do you think he would have judge Bolingbroke’s depositing of Richard in Shakespeare ‘s play?
NOTE: This is not a research paper. It is inappropriate to use secondary sources (commentaries, etc.) from the library. It is an explication de texte showing your understanding (in your own words) of what you have read and discussed in class. Free plagiarism.
