Comparatively recent work on Richard II that may well be relevant to our study of the play: Axline, Kim. “‘Sad Stories of the Death of Kings’: The Revelation of Humanity in Richard II.” On-Stage Studies 1999-2000, 22: 108 - 21. Baldini, Cajsa C. “A Courtier or a Prince: Shakespeare’s Richard II as a Dramatization of Conflicting Paradigms of Political Craftsmanship.” Forum Italicum 2003 Spring, 37(1): 56 - 69. Bayer, Mark. “Is a Crown Just a Fancy Hat? Sovereignty in Richard II.” Explorations in Renaissance Culture 2002 Summer, 28(1): 129 - 52. Berg, James E. “‘This Dear, Dear Land’: ‘Dearth’ and the Fantasy of the Land-Grab in Richard II and Henry IV.” English Literary Renaissance 1999 Spring, 29(2): 225-45. Bergbusch, Matt. “Additional Dialogue: William Shakespeare, Queer Allegory, and My Own Private Idaho.” Shakespeare without Class: Misappropriations of Cultural Capital. Ed. Donald Hedrick and Bryan Reynolds. NY : Palgrave, 2000: 209 - 25. Berger, Harry, Jr. “Harrying the Stage: Henry V in the Tetralogical Echo Chamber.” The Shakespearean International Yearbook, III: Where Are We Now in Shakespearean Studies?. Ed. Graham Bradshaw, John M. Mucciolo, Tom Bishop, and Angus Fletcher. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2003: 131 - 55. Bishop, Tom. “The Burning Hand: Poetry and Reformation in Shakespeare’s Richard II.” Religion and Literature 2000 Summer, 32(2): 29 - 47. Bolam, Robyn. “Richard II: Shakespeare and the Languages of the Stage.” The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s History Plays. Ed. Michael Hattaway. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002: 141 - 57. Cavanagh, Dermot. “The Language of Treason in Richard II.” Shakespeare Studies 1999, 27: 134-60. Cohen, Derek. “History and the Nation in Richard II and Henry IV. SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500 - 1900. 2002 Spring, 42(2): 293 - 315. Cox, Nick. “‘Subjected Thus’: Plague and Panopticism in Richard II.” Early Modern Literary Studies 2000 Sept, 6(2): 44 paragraphs. Falco, Raphael. “Charismas in Conflict: Richard II and Henry Bolingbroke.” Exemplaria. 1999 Fall, 11(2): 473-502. Forker, Charles R. “Unstable Identity in Shakespeare’s Richard II.” Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature 2001 Fall, 54(1): 3 - 21. Geckle, George L. “Narrativity: Edward II and Richard II.” Renaissance Papers 2000: 99 - 117. Healy, Margaret. “Richard II.” Shakespeare: Texts and Contexts. Ed. Kiernan Ryan. Basingstoke, England & NY: Macmillan, with Open University, St. Martin’s, 2000: 49 - 80. Hunt, Maurice. “The Conversion of Opposites and Tragedy in Shakespeare’s Richard II.” Explorations in Renaissance Culture 1999, 25: 1 - 18. Klinck, Dennis R. “Shakespeare’s Richard II as Landlord and Wasting Tenant.” Un-Disciplining Literature: Literature, Law, and Culture. Ed. Kostas Myrsiades and Linda Myrsiades. NY : Peter Lang, 1999: 190 - 205. Mayer, Jean-Christophe. “Shakespeare’s Religious Background Revisited: Richard II in a New Context.” Shakespeare and the Culture of Christianity in Early Modern England. Ed. Dennis Taylor and David N. Beauregard. New York: Fordham UP, 2003: 103 - 20 Rosendale, Timothy, “Sacral and Sacramental Kingship in the Lancastrian Tetralogy.” Shakespeare and the Culture of Christianity in Early Modern England. Ed. Dennis Taylor and David N. Beauregard. New York: Fordham UP, 2003: 121 - 40. Scott, William O. “Landholding, Leasing, and Inheritance in Richard II.” SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500 - 1900  2002 Spring, 42(2): 275 - 92. Vaught, Jennifer C. “‘Sad Stories of the Death of Kings’: Lyric and Narrative Release from Confining Spaces in Shakespeare’s Richard II.” Quidditas: Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association  1999, 20: 173 - 92.