"Shakespeare's Irish History Museum: Adapting Richard II" https://www.worldshakesbib.org/entry/bbbo660/ Author: O'Neill, Stephen. Type: Book Chapter Year: 2025 Publication Information: Murphy, Shakespeare in Ireland: Adaptations and Appropriations, 147–65. : Murphy, Shakespeare in Ireland: Adaptations and Appropriations Annotation: Recounts attending Michael Barker-Caven's production of Richard II in 2013 (q.v.), which staged "the prison-cell scene" to "the drumbeat of U2's "Sunday Bloody Sunday," exploring how the production "becomes an encounter with Irish history" (notably, Richard's Irish campaign and the twentieth-century Troubles) and "a form of historiography."  Language: English Cross-References: Barker-Caven, Richard II Persons: Murphy, Andrew; Barker-Caven, Michael Tags: Richard II, Scholarship, Criticism, History of Criticism, Stage and Theater History WSB Update: Summer 2025 WSB Record Number: bbbo660