SOURCE: Forker, Charles R. “Unstable Identity in Shakespeare's Richard II.” Renascence 54, no. 1 (fall 2001): 3-22.
In the following essay, Forker attributes Richard II's “unstable and mutable personality” to the tension between his position as king by divine right and his mortal fallibility.
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