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Author : Taylor Littleton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book To Prove a Villain: the Case of King Richard III written by Taylor Littleton and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book King Richard II written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marjorie Garber
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307490815
Total Pages : 1010 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare After All written by Marjorie Garber and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2008-11-19 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant and companionable tour through all thirty-eight plays, Shakespeare After All is the perfect introduction to the bard by one of the country’s foremost authorities on his life and work. Drawing on her hugely popular lecture courses at Yale and Harvard over the past thirty years, Marjorie Garber offers passionate and revealing readings of the plays in chronological sequence, from The Two Gentlemen of Verona to The Two Noble Kinsmen. Supremely readable and engaging, and complete with a comprehensive introduction to Shakespeare’s life and times and an extensive bibliography, this magisterial work is an ever-replenishing fount of insight on the most celebrated writer of all time.
Author : Bertram Fields
Publisher : Harper
ISBN 13 : 9780060392697
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (926 download)
Download or read book Royal Blood written by Bertram Fields and published by Harper. This book was released on 1998-09-23 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his hunched back and withered arm, Richard scuttles across the stage like a huge spider, spewing out his venomous thoughts. "Since I cannot prove a lover," he confides to the hushed audience, "I am determined to prove a villain." And he means it. As the drama unfolds this grotesque villain kills the youthful Prince of Wales and the aged, saintly Henry VI. Then, he schemes to drown his brother in a vat of wine, to poison his wife, and worst of all, to murder his two young nephews, the older of whom was the rightful king. Deserted by subjects so appalled at his bloody conduct that they will not fight beside him, Richard the usurper is defeated by the heroic Henry Tudor at the Battle of Bosworth Field. Surrounded and about to die, he cries out in desperation: "A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!" But was this all true? Notoriously immortalized by Shakespeare and historians, he is history's most infamous royal villain: Richard III, King of England from 1483 to 1485. Shakespeare's portrait comes ultimately from an unfinished manuscript by the sainted Sir Thomas More, who's assessment has generally been supported by chroniclers of the period and down through our own time. Yet some revisionists have offered a far different portrait, of a man they describe as the victim of a deliberate campaign of slander devised by the Tudors, who took the throne on Richard's death. Revisionist historians present Richard as a brave and valiant soldier, a loyal brother and an intelligent, able king popular with his subjects who was defeated only through treachery. In this comprehensive, meticulously researched new book, renowned litigator Bertram Fields goes back more than 500 years to offer a compelling look at the case of Richard III. Applying the same modern techniques he successfully uses in the courtroom, Fields outlines and evaluates the arguments on both sides, weighs the evidence, and offers the definitive truth about this extraordinary man. Fields examines the earliest biographers of Richard, exposing the political, cultural, and geographical biases inherent in their portrayals and reveals how much "fact" was actually gossip and disinformation, including that given the world by More and Shakespeare. He sets the stage for the coming drama with a lucid and colorful picture of the War of the Roses, the long struggle between the houses of York (white rose) and Lancaster (red rose), that put Richard's family on the throne. He vividly brings to life the key players, including the weak but saintly Henry VI, used and deceived by everyone, including his rapacious queen; the womanizing soldier-king Edward IV, bribed into inaction by the French king's gold; his conniving wife, Elizabeth Woodville; the charming but treacherous brother Clarence; Richard's loyal wife, Anne Neville, kidnapped and hidden away as a kitchen maid; and Henry Tudor, the exile with virtually no legitimate claim to rule, who schemed at Richard's betrayal and replaced him on the throne. Setting them against the rich tapestry of the period, the author conveys a fresh and insightful view of the many players in this royal drama and analyzes their motives and machinations as they vie for the power of the crown. Clearing away the dust of time, Royal Blood attempts to answer the intriguing questions inherent in the drama: Was Edward IV's marriage truly legal? Were his sons, Edward, Prince of Wales, and Richard, Duke of York illegitimate? What role did Richard play--or not--in his brother Clarence's death? Were the bones found in the Tower of London those of the young princes? Was there even a murder--were the boys instead removed from the Tower and raised in secrecy? And if they were cold-bloodedly killed who else would have wanted them dead? The neurotic, mercurial Buckingham? Henry VII himself? Royal Blood ends with a stunning reenvisioning of British and world history: what if Richard had never accepted the crown? What if he had instead insisted his young nephew reign as Edward V? How would our lives be changed? Breathtaking in its scope and depth, this brilliant, provocative volume, a complex melding of history, biography, and mystery, is a powerful argument that sheds new light on common belief, showing that virtually everything we know about Richard III is wrong.
Author : Saint Thomas More
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)
Download or read book More's History of King Richard III written by Saint Thomas More and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bertram Fields
Publisher : Sutton Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780750925457
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (254 download)
Download or read book Royal Blood written by Bertram Fields and published by Sutton Pub Limited. This book was released on 2000 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notoriously immortalized by Shakespeare and historians, Richard III is history's most infamous royal villain. In this boo, US litigator Bertram Fields goes back more than 500 years to review the case of Richard and the princes in the tower. Applying the same modern techniques he successfully uses in the courtroom, Fields outlines and evaluates the arguments on both sides and weighs the evidence, aiming to offer the definitive truth about this extraordinary man.
Author : John Steinbeck
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780143039488
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (394 download)
Download or read book The Winter of Our Discontent written by John Steinbeck and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-08-26 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final novel of one of America’s most beloved writers—a tale of degeneration, corruption, and spiritual crisis A Penguin Classic In awarding John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel committee stated that with The Winter of Our Discontent, he had “resumed his position as an independent expounder of the truth, with an unbiased instinct for what is genuinely American.” Ethan Allen Hawley, the protagonist of Steinbeck’s last novel, works as a clerk in a grocery store that his family once owned. With Ethan no longer a member of Long Island’s aristocratic class, his wife is restless, and his teenage children are hungry for the tantalizing material comforts he cannot provide. Then one day, in a moment of moral crisis, Ethan decides to take a holiday from his own scrupulous standards. Set in Steinbeck’s contemporary 1960 America, the novel explores the tenuous line between private and public honesty, and today ranks alongside his most acclaimed works of penetrating insight into the American condition. This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction and notes by leading Steinbeck scholar Susan Shillinglaw. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author : Jeremy Potter
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1448214122
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (482 download)
Download or read book Good King Richard? written by Jeremy Potter and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-04-20 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard III, the so-called 'last English King of England' and the wicked uncle of tradition, is the most controversial and enigmatic of monarchs. Could he really have been as sinister as he was painted by Tudor chroniclers and, if he wasn't, why do some historians go on saying that he was? Why is his enlightened legislation so little noticed? Is there any real evidence that he murdered his nephews, the princes in the Tower? Did he really have a hunchback or was it invented for him after his death as 'proof of villainy'? Is Shakespeare's Richard III a portrayal of the real Richard or no more than a character in a work of fiction? Was St Thomas More really a witness of truth? Good King Richard? Is an account of Richard III's life and times, character, appearance and reign, but above all, of the Great Debate which has raged since his death between traditionalists and revisionists. First published in 1983, to mark the 500th anniversary of his accession to the throne, Jeremy Potter's Good King Richard? is a history of his reputation from 1483 to 1983. Jeremy Potter was Chairman of the Richard III Society from 1971 until 1989. The 2014 Bloomsbury Reader edition of Good King Richard? is introduced by Peter and Carolyn Hammond from Richard III Society who discuss Jeremy Potter's account in the light of the recent archaeological discoveries of Richard's skeleton, and the location of the battlefield on which Bosworth was fought. “This book, Good King Richard?, is not a biography but is a discussion of the ebb and flow of Richard III's reputation, both in the academic world and in popular estimation. Since Jeremy wrote it there have been two major events, all archaeological, which impinge on the life of Richard III and which Jeremy would have wanted to at least mention although they do not realign Richard's reputation in any major way.”
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Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3656282048
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (562 download)
Download or read book Villain or hero? - Shakespeare's image of Richard III written by and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 2,0, University of Heidelberg (Anglistisches Seminar), language: English, abstract: In contemporary books about the English history, the entry about Richard III reads approximately as follows: According to popular belief the most villainous King in English history was a hunchback who plotted all his life to become King. This relentless pursuit of the crown was done at any cost, even it seems down to the murder of the royal princes, the sons of Edward IV [...]. When reading on, most of the works revise their opinion and admit that actually Richard was not any more blood thirsty or brutal than other contemporary monarchs, that the “popular belief” that he killed his Nephews in the Tower, and that he was malformed, was actually not a fact, but an assumption, which has not been proven up to this day. Although most of the time the reliable sources revise their opinion about this monarch a few paragraphs later, the first impression on the history-interested person is made. The question here is what creates or created this image of the villainous and deformed Richard III? Some history books mention William Shakespeare’s history The Tragedy of King Richard III as one of the possible works that have been influencing the people’s opinions about this English king. This essay is intended to analyze in what way Shakespeare’s work undermines this thesis and what picture he really drew of the monarch Richard III. In order to understand this complex matter, the essay will guide through the historical background of the drama and will try to analyze the notion of Shakespeare’s portrayal. Furthermore, as the character of Richard appears in earlier plays already, the beginnings of the character will be presented in order to highlight the complexity of the character’s development. In addition, two characterizing scenes will be examined, so that the different views on Richard’s complexion can be observed. The last part consists of a short analysis of Richard’s counterpart Richmond, which emphasizes the impact that Richard’s complexion has on the audience.
Author : Josephine Tey
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446429334
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)
Download or read book The Daughter Of Time written by Josephine Tey and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A detective story with a very considerable difference. Ingenious, stimulating and very enjoyable' SUNDAY TIMES 'As interesting and enjoyable a book as they will meet in a month of Sundays' OBSERVER Scotland Yard inspector Alan Grant, recovering from a broken leg, becomes fascinated with a contemporary portrait of Richard III, believed to have brutally killed his brother's children - the Princes in the Tower - to make his crown secure. But is the hunchback with such a sensitive, noble face really one of the world's most heinous villains? Or was he the victim of one of the most insidious plots in history? 'One of the best mysteries of all time' NEW YORK TIMES 'Suspense is achieved by unexpected twists and extremely competent storytelling . . . credible and convincing' SPECTATOR
Author : Josephine Tey
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Daughter of Time written by Josephine Tey and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan Grant, Scotland Yard Inspector is feeling bored while confined to bed in hospital with a broken leg. Marta Hallard, an actress friend of his, suggests that he should amuse himself by researching a historical mystery. She brings him some pictures of historical characters, aware of Grant's interest in human faces. He becomes intrigued by a portrait of King Richard III. He prides himself on being able to read a person's character from his appearance, and King Richard seems to him a gentle, kind and wise man. Why is everyone so sure that he was a cruel murderer? With the help of other friends and acquaintances, Grant investigates Richard's life and the case of the Princes in the Tower, testing out his theories on the doctors and nurses who attend to him. Grant spends weeks pondering historical information and documents with the help of Brent Carradine, a likable young American researcher working in the British Museum. Using his detective's logic, he tries to come to the conclusion whether the claim of Richard being a murderer is a fabrication of Tudor propaganda, or was he really a monstrous hunchback. The Daughter of Time was voted greatest mystery novel of all time by the Crime Writers' Association in 1990.
Author : Ingulf
Publisher : Franklin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780341797623
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (976 download)
Download or read book Ingulph's Chronicle of the Abbey of Croyland written by Ingulf and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-07 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : David O. Stewart
Publisher : Permuted Press
ISBN 13 : 1637580819
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (375 download)
Download or read book The New Land written by David O. Stewart and published by Permuted Press. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lose yourself in the challenges and emotions of eighteenth-century Maine. In 1753, Johann Oberstrasse’s wife, Christianne, announces that their infant sons will never soldier for the Landgraf of Hesse like their father, hired out to serve King George of England. In search of a new life, Johann and the family join an expedition to the New World, lured by the promise of land on the Maine coast. A grinding voyage deposits them on the edge of a continent filled with dangers and disease. Expecting to till the soil, Johann finds that opportunity on the rocky coast comes from the forest, not land, so he learns carpentry and trapping. To advance in an English world, Johann adapts their name to Overstreet. But war follows them. The French and their Indian allies mount attacks on the English settlements of New England. To protect their growing family and Broad Bay neighbors, Johann accepts the captaincy of the settlement’s militia and leads the company through the British assault on the citadel of Louisbourg in Nova Scotia. Left behind in Broad Bay, Christianne, their small children, and the old and young stave off Indian attacks, hunger, and cruel privations. Peace brings Johann success as a carpenter, but also searing personal losses. When the fever for American independence reaches Broad Bay in 1774, Johann is torn, then resolves to kill no more…unlike his son, Franklin, who leaves to stand with the Americans on Bunker Hill. At the same time, Johann faces old demons and a new crisis when an escaped prisoner—a hired Hessian soldier, just as he had been—arrives at his door.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Double 9 Booksllp
ISBN 13 : 9789394973633
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (736 download)
Download or read book The Life and Death of King Richard the Third written by William Shakespeare and published by Double 9 Booksllp. This book was released on 2022-04-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Life and Death of King Richard III is an authentic play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in around 1592. It portrays the Machiavellian ascent to influence and the ensuing short rule of Richard III of England. The play is gathered among the accounts in the First Folio and is most frequently delegated as such. Incidentally, in any case, as in the quartoedition, it is called a misfortune. Shakespeare's most memorable quadruplicate (additionally containing Henry VI parts 1-3). The play starts with Richard (called "Gloucester" in the text) remaining on "a street", portraying the re-growth to the lofty position of his sibling, King Edward IV of England, the oldest child of the late Richard, Duke of York. It is 1471 to infer the year. Currently, it is the colder time of year of our discontent. This sun of York made this a splendid summer, and every mist that lour'd upon our home in the deep chest of the sea covered it. "Son of York" is a play on the identification of the "blazing sun," which Edward IV embraced, and "son of York" refers to, for example, the child of the Duke of York. Richard is a revolting hunchback who is "rudely stamped," "deformed, unfinished," and can't "strut before a wanton ambling nymph." He answers the misery of his condition with an outsider's: "I am determined to prove a villain/and hate the idle pleasures of these days." Richard plots to have his sibling Clarence, who remains before him in the line of progression, led to the Tower of London over a prediction he paid off a diviner to finagle the dubious King with; that "G of Edward's heirs the murderer shall be", which the ruler deciphers as alluding to George of Clarence (without acknowledging it really alludes to Gloucester). Richard currently plans to charm "the Lady Anne"-Anne Neville, widow of the Lancastrian Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales. He says to the crowd: "I'll wed Warwick's most youthful girl." Did I kill her better half and her dad? Unlike Titus Andronicus, the play avoids realistic depictions of actual brutality; only Richard and Clarence are shown being executed in front of an audience, while the rest (the two sovereigns, Hastings and Brackenbury, Gray, Vaughan, Rivers, Anne, Buckingham, and King Edward) are executed off-stage. Notwithstanding the awful idea of the title character and the terrible storyline, Shakespeare implants the activity with comic material, as he does with the vast majority of his misfortunes. A large part of the humour comes from the polarity between how Richard's personality is known and the way he tries to show up. A scene from Richard III, coordinated by Keith Fowler for the Virginia Shakespeare Festival in Williamsburg, is one of the primary Shakespearean exhibitions in America. (Here Richard is wounded with a hog stick by the Earl of Richmond.) Richard himself additionally gives a few dry comments experiencing the same thing, as when he intends to wed Queen Elizabeth's girl: "Murder her siblings, then wed her; uncertain method of gain." Other instances of humour in this play incorporate Clarence's hesitant killers and the Duke of Buckingham's report on his endeavour to convince the Londoners to acknowledge Richard ("... I bid them that did love their country's good cry, God save Richard, England's royal king!" Richard says, "And did they so?" Buckingham: "No, so God help me, they didn't say anything...") Puns, a Shakespearean staple, are particularly well addressed in the scene where Richard attempts to convince Queen Elizabeth to charm her daughter on his behalf.
Author : Matthew Lewis
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445671557
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Richard III written by Matthew Lewis and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive new biography of one of British history's most controversial figures, that seeks to bring peace to Richard III's reputation.
Author : Mike Pitts
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500772053
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Digging for Richard III: The Search for the Lost King written by Mike Pitts and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the archaeology behind the dig that found Richard III, told through a fascinating array of photographs, diagrams, and firsthand accounts In August 2012 a search began and on February 4, 2013 a team from Leicester University delivered its verdict to a mesmerized press room, watched by media studios around the world: they had found the remains of Richard III, whose history is perhaps the most contested of all British monarchs. History offers a narrow range of information about Richard III which mostly has already been worked to destruction. Archaeology creates new data, new stories, with a different kind of material: physical remains from which modern science can wrest a surprising amount, and which provide a direct, tangible connection with the past. Unlike history, archaeological research demands that teams of people with varied backgrounds work together. Archaeology is a communal activity, in which the interaction of personalities as well as professional skills can change the course of research. Photographs from the author’s own archives, alongside additional material from Leicester University, offer a compelling detective story as the evidence is uncovered.
Author : Tom Mackenzie
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1447253264
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (472 download)
Download or read book The Last Foundling written by Tom Mackenzie and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-03-13 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deeply moving memoir from one of the last children to be taken in by the Foundling Hospital, London. When she fell pregnant in London in 1938, Jean knew that she couldn’t keep her baby. The unmarried daughter of an elder in the Church of Scotland, she would shame her family if she returned to the north in such a condition. Scared and alone in a city on the brink of war, she begged the Foundling Hospital to give her baby the start in life that she could not. The institution, which had been providing care for deserted infants since the eighteenth century, allowed Jean to nurse her son for nine weeks, leaving her heartbroken when the time came to let him go. But little Tom knew nothing of her love as he grew up in the Foundling Hospital – which, during years of the Second World War, was more like a prison than a children’s home. Locked in and subject to public canings and the sadistic whims of the older boys, there was no one to give him a hug, no one to wipe away his tears. A true story of desertion and neglect, this is also a moving account of survival from one of the very last foundlings. It stands as a testament to the love that ultimately led a family back together.
