The Brooklyn Academy of Music recently staged a rare production of the entire Henriad""Richard II," "Henry IV" Parts I and II, and "Henry V""by the Royal Shakespeare Company. The Henriad is rarely performed in sequence (the last time it was performed in the United States was in 2004, by the Trinity Repertory Theatre, in Rhode Island), because, for one thing, it's exhausting for actors. The sheer number of lines is da…
SOURCE: The New Yorker at 08:53AM on May 15, 2016