"First published in the Icon Critical Guides series in 1998 by Icon Books Ltd."--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-187) and index.
Introduction: Reading Richard II -- Ch. 1. Richard II in 1597 and 1601 -- Ch. 2. Tate's Adaptation of Richard II and Neo-Classical Criticism of Shakespeare -- Ch. 3. Romantic Criticism -- Ch. 4. Nineteenth-Century Criticism -- Ch. 5. E. M. W. Tillyard and Historical Criticism -- Ch. 6. New Criticism -- Ch. 7. Recent Criticism