Author: William ShakespearePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
King Richard II
Author: William ShakespeareHistory of the Life and Reign of Richard the Third
Author: James GairdnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Richard III
Author: William ShakespeareHistory of the life and reign of Richard the third, with the story of Perkin Warbeck
Author: James GairdnerHistory of the Life and Reign of Richard the Third
Author: James GairdnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
History of the Life and Reign of Richard the Third
Author: History of Richard III
Author: Thomas MorePublisher:
ISBN: 9781086837582
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible.
Richard III (Penguin Monarchs)
Author: Rosemary HorroxPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141978945
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
No English king has so divided opinion, both during his reign and in the centuries since, more than Richard III. He was loathed in his own time for the never-confirmed murder of his young nephews, the Princes in the Tower, and died fighting his own subjects on the battlefield. This is the vision of Richard we have inherited from Shakespeare. Equally, he inspired great loyalty in his followers. In this enlightening, even-handed study, Rosemary Horrox builds a complex picture of a king who by any standard failed as a monarch. He was killed after only two years on the throne, without an heir, and brought such a decisive end to the House of York that Henry Tudor was able to seize the throne, despite his extremely tenuous claim. Whether Richard was undone by his own fierce ambitions, or by the legacy of a Yorkist dynasty which was already profoundly dysfunctional, the end result was the same: Richard III destroyed the very dynasty that he had spent his life so passionately defending.
Richard III
Author: Chris SkidmorePublisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1466844116
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
From acclaimed historian Chris Skidmore comes the authoritative biography of Richard III, England’s most controversial king, a man alternately praised as a saint and cursed as a villain. Richard III is one of English history’s best known and least understood monarchs. Immortalized by Shakespeare as a hunchbacked murderer, the discovery in 2012 of his skeleton in a Leicester parking lot re-ignited debate over the true character of England’s most controversial king. Richard was born into an age of brutality, when civil war gripped the land and the Yorkist dynasty clung to the crown with their fingertips. Was he really a power-crazed monster who killed his nephews, or the victim of the first political smear campaign conducted by the Tudors? In the first full biography of Richard III for fifty years, Chris Skidmore draws on new manuscript evidence to reassess Richard’s life and times. Richard III examines in intense detail Richard’s inner nature and his complex relations with those around him to unravel the mystery of the last English monarch to die on the battlefield.
The Three Richards
Author: Nigel SaulPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0826424155
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
The three Richards who ruled England in the Middle Ages were among the most controversial and celebrated of its rulers. Richard I ('Coeur de Lion', 1189-99) was a great crusading hero; Richard II (1377-99) was an authoritarian aesthete deposed by his cousin, Henry IV, and murdered; while Richard III (1483-85), as the murderer of his nephews, 'The Princes in the Tower', was the most notorious villain in English history. This highly readable joint biography shows how much the three kings had in common, apart from their names. All were younger sons of monarchs, not expected to come to the throne; all failed to leave a legitimate heir, causing instability on their deaths; all were cultured and pious; and all died violently. All have attracted accusations but also fascination. In comparing them, Nigel Saul tells three gripping stories and shows what it took to be a medieval king.