Notable characteristics of the modern novel: 

• Fragmentary form, eclectic and collaged 
• Cross genre and multi-genre 
• Addressing issues of style and form 
• Considering varieties of forms of language 
• Using stories within stories 
• Unreliable narrator 
• Variety of narrators 
• Concerned with perception and point of view 
• Questioning received ideas and the notion of 'truth' 
• Cross cultural 
• Allusive 
• Playing with- and concerned with issues to do with- time 
• Exploring- re-writing and questioning- history 
• Including some kind of social commentary or criticism 
• Looking at themes to do with memory, identity, and community 
• Open endings 
• Multiple endings 
• Making the reader work   

                                                                                                                                                                                       

What to watch Recommendation: BBC TWO's Richard II- Starring Ben Wishaw as Richard II.

A short clip of the Abdication scene: 

WHAT TO WATCH Recommendation: Theater Talk: Alan Bennett on "The History Boys"