Richard II

[Richard]

I am wondering how Shakespeare made some of his plays more accessible to a mixed audience, some very poorly educated no doubt.
We know Shakespeare did not write his plays on paper because he did not want them copied and there was no written sheet for people to decide the plot beforehand.
We have lots of written analyses these days to work out what is going on and a variety of performances to choose from, some poor, some excellent.
Even so, I find it difficult to take much of it in and how the all-black female cast performing Richard II at the 'Globe' London will be seen is another matter, it would confuse matters even more to my mind.
I know nothing about the rival houses of York and Lancaster, except vaguely the war of the roses.
Plus the audience in Shakespeare's time would have to understand those historic events nearly 200 years before he wrote the play in late Elizabethan times.
A tall order!