Richard the Third and Henry the Eighth through Shakespeare's eyes
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Richard the Third and Henry the Eighth through Shakespeare's eyes
9.99 €
An investigation into the lives and deeds of two of England's most vilified and perhaps most enterprising kings. Alexandra Marinina, having studied the testimony of William Shakespeare himself, answers the question, who in the memory of the people "lucky" more: "infanticide" Richard the Third or "wife-killer" Henry the Eighth?
Little-sympathetic Richard in the hard bloody labor to get the throne, was constantly busy with war and state troubles and at 32 years old died in the Bosworth mire. His grandnephew, the handsome Henry, was born a prince, brought up by refined intellectuals and did not think of reigning because he had an older brother. But after becoming king at the age of 18, until the age of 55 he debauched, amused himself and quarreled with the church. "Ice and fire." What can be common to these two people - the last knight of medieval England and pampered patron of the British Renaissance? It turns out, a lot ... In a new historical essay by Alexandra Marinina witty and fascinating examines the work of a brilliant everyday writer of the era - the focus of attention to the famous tragedies of Shakespeare's "Richard the Third" and "Henry the Eighth".
Little-sympathetic Richard in the hard bloody labor to get the throne, was constantly busy with war and state troubles and at 32 years old died in the Bosworth mire. His grandnephew, the handsome Henry, was born a prince, brought up by refined intellectuals and did not think of reigning because he had an older brother. But after becoming king at the age of 18, until the age of 55 he debauched, amused himself and quarreled with the church. "Ice and fire." What can be common to these two people - the last knight of medieval England and pampered patron of the British Renaissance? It turns out, a lot ... In a new historical essay by Alexandra Marinina witty and fascinating examines the work of a brilliant everyday writer of the era - the focus of attention to the famous tragedies of Shakespeare's "Richard the Third" and "Henry the Eighth".
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