Act 1 Scene 1

Questions

1. Why can't Richard II relax at the beginning of the play?
2. What does Bolingbroke accuse Mowbray of doing?
3. Which of the crimes that he is accused of does Mowbray waffle about?
4. What does Bolingbroke say he'd rather do than agree to a truce with Mowbray?
5. Where does Richard say the men can fight?

Answers

1. Two seriously angry noblemen have arrived at the castle and want him to play Judge Judy.
2. He accuses him of killing Richard's uncle, Thomas of Woodstock, the Duke of Gloucester.
3. He waffles on the issue of killing Gloucester.
4. He'd rather tear out his own tongue with his teeth and spit it in Mowbray's face.
5. They can fight in Coventry.