This 1906 biography of England's last Plantagenet king was among the first and most important Ricardian apologias for a general readership.
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She is the author of Treason by Words: Literature, Law, and Rebellion in Shakespeare's England (2006), ... Gender, and Nation in Shakespeare's Early Histories (1998), editor of the Evans Shakespeare Richard III (2012), and co-editor ...
The 'Graphic Shakespeare Series' offers an introduction to Shakespeare's plays using simplified text and dramatic pictures to bring to life the main characters and key events.
A ferocious storm in two ages.... ...a spectacular rainbow and a mysterious dog.
Letters and Papers Illustrative of the Reigns of Richard III and Henry VII, ed. J. Gairdner, Rolls Series, 2 vols (London, Longman, Green, 1861–3). Letters of the Kings of England, ed. J.O. Halliwell-Phillips (London, H. Colburn, 1848).
Richard III: England's Black Legend
This is book for those who wish to begin to learn about who Richard was and about the arguments that have raged over his reputation. By the author of The Medieval Boy Bishops.
See, for example, J. Ashdown Hill, Richard III's 'Beloved Cousyn'. John Howard and the House of York (Stroud, 2009); M.A. Hicks, 'Dynastic Change and Northern Society: the career of the Fourth Earl of Northumberland 1470–89', ...
How much of what we think we know about England’s most controversial monarch will remain when the facts are sifted from the fictions? “He’s been portrayed as one of history’s biggest baddies—and Shakespeare shares the blame for ...
Richard III is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1591. The play is an unflattering depiction of the short reign of Richard III of England.
Despite the recent renaissance in studies of the reign of Richard III, most historians have remained focussed on conventional themes.
Sweeping aside sentimental fantasy, this is a colorful, authoritative biography that offers a definitive picture of both the age and the man.
Modern works such as Annette Carson's Richard III. The Maligned King, and Desmond Seward's Richard III. England's Black Legend, stand on opposite sides of a debate that has already lasted forfive centuries, andit is possible to ...
New B-format paperback edition. A definitive new biography of one of British history's most controversial figures, that seeks to bring peace to Richard III's reputation.
The story of the rise and fall of a murderous ruler, filled with courtly intrigue, dark humor, and psychological insight.
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John Dover Wilson's New Shakespeare, published between 1921 and 1966, became the classic Cambridge edition of Shakespeare's plays and poems until the 1980s. The series, long since out-of-print, is now...
A definitive new biography of one of British history's most controversial figures, that seeks to bring peace to Richard III's reputation.
This is the text of the 1623 printing of the first folio.