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Ep. 105: Not My King

Young Heretics

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The War of the Roses

In richard the second, we basically have forced abdication. Henry bolingbroke, who is richard's cousin, ends upa taking the crown from him. This is a sismic eventand it will lead to, or it will be followed, by this war between the lancasters and the yorks. The point is not what happens, but how it happens. And in many ways, this henryad is extended meditation on what an incredible burden that is.

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