Richard III
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Restless, furious, vengeful He sees with eyes long dead Malicious lies recorded His truth and honour fled The loser at the battle Despite his dauntless skill Losing yet more thereafter By the pen of Tudor’s Will He lost through heated courage The impulse wrongly judged Five hundred years to contemplate His honour foully smudged…
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These conjoined initials were devised by Frances Quinn, in Gouache on vellum:
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Another version of Shakespeare’s Richard…which means the same old, same old, of course. This one is slightly different in that the lead is played by a woman, Emily Carding. She may be truly excellent, I don’t know, but the usual humpy back, evil psychopath, crawling around the stage and so on is much in evidence. If you’re a…
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Willow: How is it you always know this stuff? You always know what’s going on. I never know what’s going on. Giles: Well, you weren’t here from midnight until six researching it. “Angel” – Buffy the Vampire Slayer Bishop of Bath and Wells, Robert Stillington, is the man who informed Richard, Duke of Gloucester, of…
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Oh, dear, yet another actor well in his fifties, playing Richard, who was just in his thirties! I suppose they have to do this, so that Shakespeare’s daftness about Richard fighting in the 1st Battle of St Albans (when he was still only two) can appear more likely to the gullible! What do I think…
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http://www2.le.ac.uk/news/blog/2015-archive-1/september/richard-iii-gave-battle-in-sand Watch time-lapse footage of Richard III sand sculpture being modelled in Leicester’ A time-lapse video showing the creation of a sand sculpture depicting the Battle of Bosworth in 1485 has been captured by the University of Leicester. 80 tonnes of sand were transformed into four giant sculptures by award-winning artists who were asked to…
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The Tragedy of King Richard 111 (not by William Shakespeare)
“Tudor” “sources”, Annette Carson, Brecknock, Brittany, Buckingham rebellion, Casper Weinreich, Charles Ross, Crowland, Edward V, Elizabeth of York, Elizabeth Woodville, France, Gairdner, George Cely, Guillaume de Rochefort, Hastings, Henry of Buckingham, Henry Tudor, John Morton, John Stow, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Lancastrians, Paul Murray Kendall, Polydore Vergil, Reynold Bray, Richard III, Richard of Shrewsbury, rumours, Shakespeare, Thomas More, Thomas Rotherham, Winston ChurchillPart 8 – “Rumour it abroad…” “ I, from the orient to the drooping west, Making the wind my post-horse, still unfold The acts commenced on this ball of earth; Upon my tongues continual slanders ride; The which in every language I pronounce Stuffing the ears of men with false reports… And no…
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What happened in 1483 was certainly a revolution of sorts, however you dress it up. It is therefore rather naive to expect that everything ought to have been done in strict accordance with common and statute law. After all, it wasn’t in 1399 or 1461, was it? If you think Richard III’s election to the…
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Most Ricardians and non-Ricardians alike have heard the story of Lord Strange, son of Thomas Stanley. Strange was held as a surety by Richard for the behaviour of his father, and when his life was threatened, Thomas was supposed to have flippantly said, “I have other sons.” It is also claimed Richard ordered Strange’s death…
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Richard of Gloucester as Lord of the North and the siege of Berwick 1482
Anne Neville, Arthur “Tudor”, Bamburgh, Berwick, borders, Brough, Brougham, Carlisle, Cecilia, Cecily Duchess of York, Coldingham, Council of the North, Croyland, Cumberland, Duke of Albany, Duke of Angus, Earl of Northumberland, Edward IV, George Duke of Clarence, George Neville, Hadrian’s Wall, Henry VII, James III, James IV, Joan “Beaufort”, Lady Margaret Beaufort, Lord of the North, Middleham, Paston Letters, Penrith Castle, Ralph Neville, Richard III, Richard of Warwick, Roxburgh, Scotland, Scottish Marches, Sheriff Hutton, siege of Berwick, Sixtus IV, Thomas Lord StanleyOriginally posted on Giaconda's Blog: Having recently visited some of Richard’s holdings in the north of England such as Penrith Castle which he was given after the death of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick in 1471, I wanted to write a short piece about his role as Lord Warden of the West Marches and Sheriff of…