Author: William ShakespearePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 200
Book Description
Richard III
Author: William ShakespeareKing Richard II
Author: William ShakespeareHistory 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 Duke of Gloucester as Lord Protector and High Constable of England
Author: Annette CarsonPublisher: Imprimis Imprimatur
ISBN: 0957684053
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Acclaimed author Annette Carson continues her Richard III studies by concentrating on his brief protectorate while he was still Duke of Gloucester.
Richard III
Author: David HorspoolPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1620405113
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
For many, Richard III is an obsession-the Richard III Society has a huge membership, and Shakespeare's Histories have contributed to, if not his popularity, certainly his notoriety. Now, with the discovery of Richard III's bones under a parking lot in Leicester, England, interest in this divisive and enigmatic figure in British history is at an all-time high. It is a compelling story to scholars as well as general readers, who continue to seek out the kind of strong narrative history that David Horspool delivers in this groundbreaking biography of the king. Richard III dispassionately examines the legend as well as the man to uncover both what we know of the life of Richard, and the way that his reputation has been formed and re-formed over centuries. But beyond simply his reputation, there is no dispute that the last Plantagenet is a pivotal figure in English history-his death signaled the end of the War of the Roses, and, arguably, the end of the medieval period in England-and Horspool's biography chronicles this tumultuous time with flair. This narrative-driven and insightful biography lays out a view of Richard that is fair to his historical character and to his background in the medieval world. Above all, it is authoritative in its assessment of a king who came to the throne under extraordinary circumstances.
Richard III., as Duke of Gloucester and King of England
Author: Caroline Amelia HalstedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Good King Richard?
Author: Jeremy PotterPublisher: Constable & Robinson
ISBN: 9780094688407
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
"Richard III, the so-called 'last English King of England' and the wicked uncle of popular tradition, is the most controversial and enigmatic of monarchs. Still the Great Debate between traditionalists and revisionists rages on. Was he an enlightened legislator out of his depth in the political intrigues of his time? Or was he simply, brutally, the 'gargoyle on the great cathedral of English history'? Searching for the man behind the portraits, Jeremy Potter adduces a formidable array of colourful and quarrelsome voices from St Thomas More to Laurence Olivier."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
RICHARD III. AS DUKE OF GLOUCESTER AND KING OF ENGLAND,.
Author: CAROLINE A. HALSTEDPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033673447
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Global Indies
Author: Ashley L. CohenPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300255691
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A study of British imperialism’s imaginative geography, exploring the pairing of India and the Atlantic world from literature to colonial policyIn this lively book, Ashley Cohen weaves a complex portrait of the imaginative geography of British imperialism. Contrary to most current scholarship, eighteenth-century Britons saw the empire not as separate Atlantic and Indian spheres but as an interconnected whole: the Indies. Crisscrossing the hemispheres, Cohen traces global histories of race, slavery, and class, from Boston to Bengal. She also reveals the empire to be pervasively present at home, in metropolitan scenes of fashionable sociability. Close-reading a mixed archive of plays, poems, travel narratives, parliamentary speeches, political pamphlets, visual satires, paintings, memoirs, manuscript letters, and diaries, Cohen reveals how the pairing of the two Indies in discourse helped produce colonial policies that linked them in practice. Combining the methods of literary studies and new imperial history, Cohen demonstrates how the imaginative geography of the Indies shaped the culture of British imperialism, which in turn changed the shape of the world.
Richard the Third
Author: Paul Murray KendallPublisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1447495470
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Richard III (2 October 1452 - 22 August 1485) was King of England from 1483 until his death in 1485 in the Battle of Bosworth Field. He was the last king of the House of York and the last of the Plantagenet dynasty. His defeat at Bosworth Field, the last decisive battle of the Wars of the Roses, marked the end of the Middle Ages in England. He is the subject of the fictional historical play Richard III by William Shakespeare. In 2012, an archaeological excavation was conducted on a city council car park using ground-penetrating radar on the site once occupied by Greyfriars, Leicester. The University of Leicester confirmed on 4 February 2013 that the skeleton found in the excavation is that of Richard III, based on the results of radiocarbon dating, a comparison with contemporary reports of his appearance, and a comparison of his mitochondrial DNA with that of two matrilineal descendants of Richard III's eldest sister, Anne of York.