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Meeting of King Richard II with Rebels at Mile End

King Richard II, a fourteen-year-old boy, rides out to meet the insurgent leader Wat Tyler and a massive peasant army at Mile End. In a moment of desperate political maneuvering, the boy-king grants t

Setting

The open, dusty fields of Mile End just outside the London city walls, where the green meadows are now trampled into bare earth by thousands of feet.

Characters

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King Richard II
primary
A slender boy of fourteen with a pale, porcelain complexion and fine, flaxen hair that falls in soft waves to his shoulders. He possesses an aristocratic, almost ethereal delicacy that contrasts sharply with the rugged, weather-beaten rebels surrounding him. His features are youthful but carry the weight of an unnatural solemnity, though his hands tremble slightly as he grips the reins.
Wat Tyler
primary
A man of robust, rugged build with sun-hardened skin and calloused hands. His hair is a dark, sweat-matted tangle beneath a simple chaperon, and his face is marked by the grime of the march from Canterbury. He possesses a magnetic, albeit menacing, physical presence that commands the attention of both the mob and the nobility.
Sir Aubrey de Vere
secondary
A weather-beaten man of fifty-five with silver-streaked hair and a face etched with deep lines from decades of military service. He has a wiry, resilient build and sharp, hawk-like eyes that never stop scanning the horizon for movement.
Jack Straw
secondary
A wiry, sun-darkened man with a hawk-like nose and thinning, sweat-matted hair. He has the hardened physique of a man who has spent years in the fields, with prominent veins in his neck and hands that are calloused and stained with earth.
Royal Page
background
A slender, pale youth with soft, boyish features and blond hair cut in a bowl-shaped page style typical of the 14th century. He is roughly the same age as the King, but lacks the monarch's poise, appearing physically smaller and more fragile against the backdrop of the massive rebel mob.
Kentish Bowman
background
A weather-beaten man with skin tanned and toughened by outdoor labor. His shoulders are broad and uneven, a physical deformity common to longbowmen from years of drawing heavy yew bows. He has rough, calloused hands and a thick, unkempt beard flecked with dust from the march from Canterbury.

Dialog

Wat Tyler Look 'ere, boy-king. We'll 'ave no more of these lords and their chains, nor no more bondmen in all of England, or there'll be no crown left to sit on your 'ead.
Sir Aubrey de Vere Hold your distance, churl. Your tongue outpaces your station.
Jack Straw No more talk of stations! No more tax! No more masters, by the bread of the poor!
King Richard II Be silent, Sir Aubrey. If it be the will of the Almighty that We must grant this grace to Our subjects to preserve the peace of Our realm, then let it be proclaimed.
Wat Tyler The parchment, then. I want it written and sealed—every man free to work where 'e will, and no rent paid but by the acre.
King Richard II We do decree hereby that all Our people shall be free from the yoke of vassalage, and We shall grant Our royal charters to every township that requires them from Our hand.
Sir Aubrey de Vere Sire, this is madness. You grant them the kingdom's marrow.

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