Author: W. ShakespearePublisher:
ISBN: 9781417739387
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The classic tragedy about the downfall of King Richard II is presented with critical commentary and historical background
Richard II
Author: W. ShakespearePublisher:
ISBN: 9781417739387
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The classic tragedy about the downfall of King Richard II is presented with critical commentary and historical background
Richard II
Author: William ShakespearePublisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781728877501
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Richard II by William Shakespeare . Richard II is one of Shakespeare's finest works: lucid, eloquent, and boldly structured. It can be seen as a tragedy, or a historical play, or a political drama, or as one part of a vast dramatic cycle which helped to generate England's national identity. Today, to some of us, Richard II may appear conservative; but, in Shakespeare's day, it could appear subversive: 'I am Richard II', declared an indignant Queen Elizabeth. Numerous recent revivals in the theatre and on screen have demonstrated the enduring power and poignancy of this drama of the downfall of an egoistic but pitiable monarch.
Richard III
Author: William ShakespeareThe Tragedy of King Richard II Part One
Author: Michael EganPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781523987771
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Also known as Thomas of Woodstock, this unique edition is the only one based on a computerized analysis of the anonymous, hand-written MS in the British Library. Designed for actors and directors, but including scholarly notes and a comparative review of the MS's 13 earlier editions, the meticulously edited text concludes with a 'conjectural emendation' in the Elizabethan manner winding up the story. Is it by Shakespeare? This long-forgotten masterpiece completes the 'Hollow Crown' cycle filling in the narrative between Edward III and Shakespeare's Richard II, which begins immediately after its dramatic depiction of King Richard's first deposition and restoration in December, 1387.
Richard II
Author: Kathryn WarnerPublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445662795
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
A new biography re-examining the complex and fascinating king, whose very humanity saw him deposed from his divine role.
The Tragedy of Richard II, Part One
Author: William ShakespearePublisher:
ISBN: 9780773460782
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This is a new, three-volume (4 book) edition of an anonymous Elizabethan history play that has intrigued Shakespeare scholars for more than a century. Using modern computer softwares to degrain and magnify the text, Egan resolves many of the transcription difficulties presented by the handwritten manuscript to produce the most authoritative edition available.
King Richard III
Author: William ShakespeareRichard II
Author: William ShakespearePublisher: Signet
ISBN: 9780451527196
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The classic tragedy about the downfall of King Richard II is presented with critical commentary and historical background
Henry IV
Author: William ShakespearePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
King Richard
Author: Michael DobbsPublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0385350090
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
ONE OF USA TODAY'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • A riveting account of the crucial days, hours, and moments when the Watergate conspiracy consumed, and ultimately toppled, a president—from the best-selling author of One Minute to Midnight. In January 1973, Richard Nixon had just been inaugurated after winning re-election in a historic landslide. He enjoyed an almost 70 percent approval rating. But by April 1973, his presidency had fallen apart as the Watergate scandal metastasized into what White House counsel John Dean called “a full-blown cancer.” King Richard is the intimate, utterly absorbing narrative of the tension-packed hundred days when the Watergate conspiracy unraveled as the burglars and their handlers turned on one another, exposing the crimes of a vengeful president. Drawing on thousands of hours of newly-released taped recordings, Michael Dobbs takes us into the heart of the conspiracy, recreating these traumatic events in cinematic detail. He captures the growing paranoia of the principal players and their desperate attempts to deflect blame as the noose tightens around them. We eavesdrop on Nixon plotting with his aides, raging at his enemies, while also finding time for affectionate moments with his family. The result is an unprecedentedly vivid, close-up portrait of a president facing his greatest crisis. Central to the spellbinding drama is the tortured personality of Nixon himself, a man whose strengths, particularly his determination to win at all costs, become his fatal flaws. Rising from poverty to become the most powerful man in the world, he commits terrible errors of judgment that lead to his public disgrace. He makes himself—and then destroys himself. Structured like a classical tragedy with a uniquely American twist, King Richard is an epic, deeply human story of ambition, power, and betrayal.