Our participants for this episode are Jane May, Sam Gibbs, Brittany Chandler, Nicholas Koy Santillo & Ariana Karp. Join us as we scratch our heads discussing the concept of primogeniture, puzzling through the rules and who is related to whom. For a very thorough Richard II genealogy, click here. 

Other topics include: 

• Divine right of kings
• The birth of obsessive interiority 
• Classism
• The move from feudalism and chivalry to modern politics
• Ascension and Descension 
• Private moments vs public moments vs private moments in public 

Ceremony and formalism in Act I. 1965 production: Alan Howard as Bolingbroke, John Neville as Richard in the centre, and John Tordoff as Mowbray