SOURCE: “King of Tears: Mortality in Richard II,” in Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, Vol. 39, No. 1, 1985, pp. 7-18.
In the following essay, Kehler emphasizes the tragic and psychological aspects of Richard II as she traces the king's emotional journey from a conviction that he is invulnerable to a recognition of his mortality.
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