ALTERNATIVE VIEWS ON RICAHRD III

ALTERNATIVE VIEWS ON RICAHRD III

How will these resources help you? The Tudor image of their defeated enemy, Richard III, exemplified by Shakespeare’s infamous portrayal, still lingers in the British mind: the murderous, conniving ‘hunchback’ is an enduring image. However, to accept this at face...
ALTERNATIVE VIEWS ON RICAHRD III

THE WOMEN OF THE WARS OF THE ROSES

How will these resources help you? Traditionally, male perspectives and figures have dominated the narrative of this epic conflict, or civil war, between two branches of the Plantagenet dynasty in the later fifteenth century. Shakespeare’s history plays still have a...
ALTERNATIVE VIEWS ON RICAHRD III

PLANTAGENET QUEENS AND QUEENSHIP

How will these resources help you? The queens of the medieval era are often overshadowed by their early-modern counterparts in the Tudor and Stuart period, or by the men and events of this turbulent period. While we all too often focus on kings and their reigns,...