# The Tragedy of King Richard the II. As it is acted at the Theatre in Lincoln's-Inn-Fields. Alter'd from Shakespear, by Mr. Theobald

**Slug:** `richard_ii_1720`  
**Priority:** 1  
**Author:** Lewis Theobald  
**Edition / date:** London: printed for G. Strahan, W. Mears, T. Meighan, B. Barker; sold by J. Morphew, 1720. Only early edition.

## Sources
_None obtained._

## Cleaned text(s)
_None._

## Completeness
NOT OBTAINED.

## OCR quality / notes

Not on archive.org (searched titles 'king richard'/'tragedy of king richard'/'richard the ii'/'richard' 1719-1721, creator Theobald, creator Shakespeare 1700-1740; only Cornmarket facsimiles of OTHER plays and Shakespeare's own Richard II found).
Not in HathiTrust: the complete HathiTrust inventory file hathi_full_20260901.txt.gz (1.22 GB) was streamed and grepped for 'theobald', 'richard the ii', etc.; no 1720 Richard II record exists (HathiTrust holds only Theobald's Raleigh 1719, Shakespeare Restored 1726 and the Shakespeare editions).
Google Books: a record exists only for the Cornmarket Press 1969 facsimile (id DJwIAQAAIAAJ, 'No eBook available'); Google Books search/API/text views are blocked from here (HTTP 403 'automated queries' / 429 quota), so no Google-digitised original could be checked.
Chadwyck-Healey English Verse Drama has a TEI text (UVA mirror: https://xtf.lib.virginia.edu/xtf/view?docId=chadwyck_evd/uvaGenText/tei/chevd_V2.0347.xml) but it sits behind an AWS-WAF JavaScript challenge / licence wall - not attempted further. Yale digital-collections records 10000563 / 10000056 (same WAF block). Folger catalog record 181610 (HTTP 403).
ECCO (Gale) has the page images + OCR (ESTC T-number in ECCO); not accessible here. archive.org lending-library Cornmarket facsimiles have their OCR restricted (HTTP 401 on djvu.txt), as seen for The Comical Gallant.