The Life and Death of King Richard the Second, usually called Richard II, is a set of experiences in a play by William Shakespeare that is considered to have been written in roughly 1595.It depends on the existence of King Richard II of England (governed 1377-1399) and is the initial segment of a quadruplicate, alluded to by certain researchers as the Henriad, trailed by three plays concerning Richard's replacements: The play traverses just the most recent two years of Richard's life, from 1398 to 1400.The first act starts with King Richard sitting magnificently on his high position in full state, having been mentioned to mediate a debate between Thomas Mowbray and Richard's cousin, Henry Bolingbroke, later Henry IV, who has blamed Mowbray for wasting cash given to him by Richard for the lord's warriors and for killing Bolingbroke's uncle, the Duke of Gloucester.In the meantime, John of Gaunt, the first Duke of Lancaster, accepts that it was Richard himself who was answerable for his sibling's homicide.They then assist Bolingbroke in returning furtively to England with an arrangement to oust Richard II.When King Richard passes on England to take care of the conflict in Ireland, Bolingbroke quickly jumps all over the chance to collect a military force and attacks the north shoreline of England.