>Tfw you realize Shakespeare's genius use of the male/female

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purplepill yourself

>>9193569
I'm confused by what you mean.
Richard II wasn't just or good.

>>9193600
The female characters are the ones who deal with the events on a personal level (the duchess of York begs for her son's pardon, Queen isabel laments her separation from Richard, etc) whereas the male characters think politically (Bolingbroke acts very expediently throughout the play). Richard himself is an effeminate man who has the divine right of kings to rule, but as such he is ineffective. He even compares himself to a woman in his final soliloquy. Bolingbroke is his masculine counterpart; effective and descisive, but lacking a proper succession to the throne. In the final scene he begins to take up the griefs and burdens of the throne, which begin his process of emasculation that is completed by the beginning of Henry IV part 1