Ok this is when I get to recognize that some things DO influence what I read and what I'm interested in. I saw the theater students of the CUT at my univesity perform fragments and monologues from the History plays by SHakespeare, most of them where from Henry IV and Henry V. I really liked the costumes, they consisted of soccer jerseys with a big red cross in the center and their names on the back (Bolingbroke, Henry IV, Henry V, Falstaff). I was fascinated by this t-shirts, and of course very curious about the plays.

On Richard II the most noticeable thing is that there is rhyme :O