For you have but mistook me all this while: I live with bread like you, feel want, Taste grief, need friends. Subjected thus, How can you say to me, I am a king?

What is a king stripped bare? And how is an average man made into a king?

When the corrupt King Richard II banishes Henry Bolingbroke from England, he cements the rebellion that will be his downfall. An account of that rebellion, Shakespeare's political drama exposes what lies underneath the majesty and pomp of kingship. In search of power, human beings will purge, murder, and manipulate those who stand in their way. But when that power dissolves, they can manage a simple kindness that no crown could bestow.