Ebook The Study of Shakespeare's King Richard the Second

II. That in act 2 the counter-plot Should develop; that is, complications, difficulties, and dangers impending to thwart the action initiated in act 1 should be fully indicated, together with the dramatis personae among whom they originate. III. That in act 3 we should have the bringing together of these two groups of persons, of these opposing plots, and a struggle of forces, not apparently decisive, but indicating with certainty to all except~ the participants the final result.