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Cargando... Richard II: A Brittle Glory (Penguin Monarchs) (2016 original; edición 2017)por Laura Ashe (Autor)
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Richard II (1377-99) came to the throne as a child, following the long, domineering, martial reign of his grandfather Edward III. He suffered from the disastrous combination of a most exalted sense of his own power and an inability to impress that power on those closest to the throne. Neither trusted nor feared, Richard battled with a whole series of failures and emergencies before finally succumbing to a coup, imprisonment and murder. Laura Ashe's brilliant account of his reign emphasizes the strange gap between Richard's personal incapacity and the amazing cultural legacy of his reign - from the Wilton Diptych to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Piers Plowman and The Canterbury Tales. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Like all the books in the Penguin Monarchs series, this one is just around 100 pages, but the author's unique organizational method, in which each chapter describes Richard's actions in a different sphere: parliament, battlefield, city, and shrine, allows her to use the page count to her advantage and build a comprehensive portrait of a man most know only as the tragic protagonist in a Shakespearean play. ( )