Richard II (play)

Richard II - history play by William Shakespeare. This book is the 1567^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “Richard II (play)” in English Wikipedia has 72.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 43 references and 15 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Richard II (play)” was edited by 3 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Richard II (play)”, its content was written by 243 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 678 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Richard II is on the 1567^th place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 985 times in English Wikipedia and cited 3477 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #684 in January 2003
• Global: #1787 in January 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #14562 in July 2012
• Global: #27910 in July 2012

There are 28 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Richard II (play)		72.2778
2	Swedish (sv) Richard II (pjäs)		51.7389
3	French (fr) Richard II (Shakespeare)		36.6881
4	Latin (la) Richard II (Shakesperius)		35.1285
5	Hungarian (hu) II. Richárd (dráma)		33.4742
6	Japanese (ja) リチャード二世 (シェイクスピア)		32.5829
7	Turkish (tr) II. Richard (oyun)		32.0031
8	Greek (el) Ριχάρδος ο Β΄ (Σαίξπηρ)		28.9412
9	Portuguese (pt) Ricardo II (peça teatral)		22.8587
10	Simple English (simple) Richard II (play)		22.6158

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Richard II (play)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Richard II (play)		2 478 550
2	German (de) Richard II. (Drama)		166 855
3	French (fr) Richard II (Shakespeare)		164 792
4	Italian (it) Riccardo II (Shakespeare)		126 529
5	Russian (ru) Ричард II (пьеса)		119 289
6	Japanese (ja) リチャード二世 (シェイクスピア)		115 917
7	Spanish (es) Ricardo II (Shakespeare)		69 339
8	Polish (pl) Ryszard II (sztuka)		39 912
9	Portuguese (pt) Ricardo II (peça teatral)		32 199
10	Turkish (tr) II. Richard (oyun)		26 557

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Richard II (play)" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Richard II (play)		8 538
2	Russian (ru) Ричард II (пьеса)		409
3	German (de) Richard II. (Drama)		368
4	French (fr) Richard II (Shakespeare)		351
5	Japanese (ja) リチャード二世 (シェイクスピア)		347
6	Italian (it) Riccardo II (Shakespeare)		304
7	Spanish (es) Ricardo II (Shakespeare)		184
8	Turkish (tr) II. Richard (oyun)		129
9	Portuguese (pt) Ricardo II (peça teatral)		99
10	Czech (cs) Richard II. (Shakespeare)		93

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Richard II (play)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Richard II (play)		243
2	Italian (it) Riccardo II (Shakespeare)		63
3	German (de) Richard II. (Drama)		59
4	French (fr) Richard II (Shakespeare)		52
5	Russian (ru) Ричард II (пьеса)		33
6	Japanese (ja) リチャード二世 (シェイクスピア)		28
7	Turkish (tr) II. Richard (oyun)		25
8	Dutch (nl) Richard II (toneelstuk)		23
9	Hebrew (he) ריצ'רד השני (מחזה)		19
10	Latin (la) Richard II (Shakesperius)		19

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Richard II (play)" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Richard II (play)		3
2	Armenian (hy) Ռիչարդ II (պիես)		2
3	Japanese (ja) リチャード二世 (シェイクスピア)		1
4	Dutch (nl) Richard II (toneelstuk)		1
5	Russian (ru) Ричард II (пьеса)		1
6	Arabic (ar) ريتشارد الثاني (مسرحية)		0
7	Catalan (ca) Ricard II (obra de teatre)		0
8	Czech (cs) Richard II. (Shakespeare)		0
9	German (de) Richard II. (Drama)		0
10	Greek (el) Ριχάρδος ο Β΄ (Σαίξπηρ)		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Richard II (play)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Richard II (play)		985
2	French (fr) Richard II (Shakespeare)		314
3	German (de) Richard II. (Drama)		252
4	Italian (it) Riccardo II (Shakespeare)		222
5	Japanese (ja) リチャード二世 (シェイクスピア)		182
6	Russian (ru) Ричард II (пьеса)		166
7	Portuguese (pt) Ricardo II (peça teatral)		121
8	Hebrew (he) ריצ'רד השני (מחזה)		113
9	Spanish (es) Ricardo II (Shakespeare)		106
10	Swedish (sv) Richard II (pjäs)		99

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic ريتشارد الثاني (مسرحية)
ca	Catalan Ricard II (obra de teatre)
cs	Czech Richard II. (Shakespeare)
de	German Richard II. (Drama)
el	Greek Ριχάρδος ο Β΄ (Σαίξπηρ)
en	English Richard II (play)
eo	Esperanto Rikardo la 2-a (Shakespeare)
es	Spanish Ricardo II (Shakespeare)
fa	Persian ریچارد دوم (نمایشنامه)
fi	Finnish Rikhard II (näytelmä)
fr	French Richard II (Shakespeare)
he	Hebrew ריצ'רד השני (מחזה)
hu	Hungarian II. Richárd (dráma)
hy	Armenian Ռիչարդ II (պիես)
it	Italian Riccardo II (Shakespeare)
ja	Japanese リチャード二世 (シェイクスピア)
ko	Korean 리처드 2세 (희곡)
la	Latin Richard II (Shakesperius)
nl	Dutch Richard II (toneelstuk)
pl	Polish Ryszard II (sztuka)
pt	Portuguese Ricardo II (peça teatral)
ro	Romanian Richard al II-lea (piesă de teatru)
ru	Russian Ричард II (пьеса)
simple	Simple English Richard II (play)
sr	Serbian Ричард II (драма)
sv	Swedish Richard II (pjäs)
tr	Turkish II. Richard (oyun)
uk	Ukrainian Річард II (п'єса)

Best Rank

English: #14562 07.2012

Global: #27910 07.2012

Best Rank

English: #684 01.2003

Global: #1787 01.2003

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