watching richard II comes, for me, with the warm fuzzy feeling of witnessing richard milk the stage for everything it's worth for like an hour straight while men like northumberland (not so) discreetly roll their eyes and spiritually check their anachronistic wrist watches and bolinbroke stands there uncomfortably like :I . it makes me want to whisper to him 'oh buddy, you are going to cause so much drama in the years to come'. it's what he would have wanted. some people live for the drama, richard lived, died, deposed himself in an absolutely baffling fashion, indulged in an act long elaborate guilt trip over it even so, and in some readings of the stage directions stabbed a motherfucker for the entertainment of no one but the audience and the poor dude bringing him food (presumably looking on like O___O) before getting murdered... for the drama. and honestly he is not valid but I support him anyway