"Richard II by William Shakespeare: why ‘the divine right of kings’ (still) matters"

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https://theconversation.com/richard-ii-by-william-shakespeare-why-the-divine-right-of-kings-still-matters-186648

[John W Kennedy]

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https://theconversation.com/richard-ii-by-william-shakespeare-why-the-divine-right-of-kings-still-matters-186648

People today oppose the divine right of kings to small-R republicanism
or small-D democracy. But that is not how Shakespeare (or Elizabeth I)
saw it, to whom the opposite of the divine right of kings was anarchy.