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Richard the Third
| Author | : Paul Murray Kendall |
| Publisher | : Read Books Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 692 |
| Release | : 2013-04-18 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1447495470 |
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.
The Last Days of Richard III and the fate of his DNA
| Author | : John Ashdown-Hill |
| Publisher | : The History Press |
| Total Pages | : 375 |
| Release | : 2013-01-16 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0752498665 |
The Last Days of Richard III contains a new and uniquely detailed exploration of Richard's last 150 days. By deliberately avoiding the hindsight knowledge that he will lose the Battle of Bosworth Field, we discover a new Richard: no passive victim, awaiting defeat and death, but a king actively pursuing his own agenda. It also re-examines the aftermath of Bosworth: the treatment of Richard's body; his burial; and the construction of his tomb. And there is the fascinating story of why, and how, Richard III's family tree was traced until a relative was found, alive and well, in Canada. Now, with the discovery of Richard's skeleton at the Greyfrairs Priory in Leicester, England, John Ashdown-Hill explains how his book inspired the dig and completes Richard III's fascinating story, giving details of how Richard died, and how the DNA link to a living relative of the king allowed the royal body to be identified.
Richard III
| Author | : Chris Skidmore |
| Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
| Total Pages | : 456 |
| Release | : 2018-04-24 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1466844116 |
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.
Richard III Annotated
| Author | : William Shakespeare |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 250 |
| Release | : 2021-02-04 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
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. While generally classified as a history, as grouped in the First Folio, the play is sometimes called a tragedy (as in the first quarto). It picks up the story from Henry VI, Part 3 and concludes the historical series that stretches back to Richard II.
Richard III
| Author | : Matthew Lewis |
| Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
| Total Pages | : 681 |
| Release | : 2018-09-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1445671557 |
A definitive new biography of one of British history's most controversial figures, that seeks to bring peace to Richard III's reputation.
The History of King Richard the Third
| Author | : Thomas More |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 214 |
| Release | : 2005-11-03 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780253111777 |
The History of King Richard the Third is Thomas More's English masterpiece. With the help of Shakespeare, whose Richard the Third took More's work as its principal model, the History determined the historical reputation of an English king and spawned a seemingly endless controversy about the justness of that reputation. George M. Logan has produced a scholarly yet accessible edition of the History, designed to make More's exhilarating work fully accessible to 21st-century readers. More's text is presented here with modern English spelling and punctuation, and with full annotation of linguistic difficulties and the historical background. The text is preceded by a general introduction, a chronology, and suggestions for further reading. An appendix reprints passages from key sources and analogues, enabling the reader to see how More worked with his English sources and classical models, and finally how Shakespeare worked with More.
