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The Hollow Crown
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Author : Miri Rubin
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2005-01-27
The Hollow Crown written by Miri Rubin and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-27 with History categories.
There is no more haunting, compelling period in Britain's history than the later middle ages. The extraordinary kings - Edward III and Henry V the great warriors, Richard II and Henry VI, tragic inadequates killed by their failure to use their power, and Richard III, the demon king. The extraordinary events - the Black Death that destroyed a third of the population, the Peasants' Revolt, the Wars of the Roses, the Battle of Agincourt. The extraordinary artistic achievements - the great churches, castles and tombs that still dominate the landscape, the birth of the English language in The Canterbury Tales. For the first time in a generation, a historian has had the vision and confidence to write a spell-binding account of the era immortalised by Shakespeare's history plays. THE HOLLOW CROWN brilliantly brings to life for the reader a world we have long lost - a strange, Catholic, rural country of monks, peasants, knights and merchants, almost perpetually at war - but continues to define so much of England's national myth.
Within The Hollow Crown
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Author : Margaret Campbell Barnes
language : en
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Release Date : 2010-04-01
Within The Hollow Crown written by Margaret Campbell Barnes and has been published by Sourcebooks, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-01 with Fiction categories.
"Within the hollow crown that rounds the mortal temples of a king..." -Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Richard II Unlike his father, the Black Prince, or his namesake, King Richard the Lionheart, Richard II never really wanted to be king. But the mantle of royalty is thrust upon his shoulders at age 11, at a time when England is racked by unrest and class warefare. A leader as unexpected as he is inexperienced, young Richard must find a way to triumph over a fierce conflict more destructive than any foreign enemy. Richard's love for his wife, Anne of Bohemia, gave him the strength to outwit the schemes of his enemies and govern as he saw fit, providing England with years of properity under his reign. But when tragedy strikes, Richard begins to loose the common touch by which he had ruled so brilliantly, and begins a downward spiral from which his detractors would derive strength... "Sympathetic picture of sensitive, peace-loving, and ill-beset Richard II, who had it in him to be one of the best kings England ever had."-Booklist "Ms. Barnes captures the flavor, pageantry, and color of the Middle Ages...a distinguished novel." -Philadelphia Inquirer
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Author : Dan Jones
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2014-09-02
The Hollow Crown written by Dan Jones and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-02 with History categories.
'The Hollow Crown is exhilarating, epic, blood-and-roses history . . . Jones's material is thrilling . . . There is fine scholarly intuition on display here and a mastery of the grand narrative; it is a supremely skilful piece of storytelling.' Sunday Telegraph The fifteenth century saw the crown of England change hands seven times as the great families of England fought to the death for power, majesty and the right to rule. The Hollow Crown completes Dan Jones' epic history of medieval England, and describes how the Plantagenets tore themselves apart to be finally replaced by the Tudors. Some of the greatest heroes and villains in British history were thrown together in these turbulent times: Henry V, whose victory at Agincourt and prudent rule at home marked the high point of the medieval monarchy; Edward IV, who was handed his crown by the scheming soldier Warwick the Kingmaker, before their alliance collapsed into a fight to the death; and the last Plantagenet, Richard III, who stole the throne and murdered his own nephews, the Princes in the Tower. Finally, the Tudors arrived - but even their rule was only made certain in the 1520s, when Henry VIII ruthlessly hunted down his family's last remaining enemies. In the midst this tumult, chivalry was reborn, the printing press arrived and the Renaissance began to flourish. With vivid descriptions of the battle of Towton, where 28,000 men died in a single morning, and the Battle of Bosworth Field, at which Richard III was hacked down, this is the real story behind Shakespeare's famous history plays.
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
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From executive producer Sam Mendes (Skyfall, American Beauty) comes a stunning adaptation of four of Shakespeares most celebrated history plays: Richard II, Henry IV (Part 1 and Part 2), and Henry V. Together, the plays comprise a story with recurring themes of power struggles, redemption, family conflict and betrayal.
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Author : Nicholas B. Dirks
language : en
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
Release Date : 1987
The Hollow Crown written by Nicholas B. Dirks and has been published by Orient Blackswan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with History categories.
The Hollow Crown reconstructs the sociocultural history of a warrior polity in south India between the fourteenth and the twentieth centuries.
Within The Hollow Crown
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Author : Margaret Campbell Barnes
language : en
Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark
Release Date : 2010
Within The Hollow Crown written by Margaret Campbell Barnes and has been published by Sourcebooks Landmark this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Fiction categories.
A leader as unexpected as he is inexperienced, young Richard must find a way to triumph over a fierce conflict more destructive than any foreign enemy.
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Author : Jeff Wheeler
language : en
Publisher: Kingfountain
Release Date : 2017
The Hollow Crown written by Jeff Wheeler and has been published by Kingfountain this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Fiction categories.
A Wall Street Journal bestseller. The fourth book in the million-copy bestselling Kingfountain series from Jeff Wheeler. Following the downfall of a tyrant, years have passed in prosperity for the kingdom of Ceredigion. Now, as the time comes to celebrate the new king's nuptials, the specter of a new enemy emerges to destroy all that has been painstakingly built in those years. Tryneowy Kiskaddon has grown up learning military and diplomatic strategy from her father, one of the king's closest advisors. She feels her destiny lies in defending the kingdom as a knight, not as a Wizr as her parents have decided, though no lady of the realm has taken up the sword in a century. As she seeks to understand her own Fountain-blessed powers, she studies in the tradition of her mother while training in secret and closely following the realm's politics, alarmed by her mother's vision of an impending clash and a devastating future. But the pieces on fate's game board are in motion, and on the eve of battle, a threatening force irrevocably changes the future of the kingdom and her own. Does Trynne have what it takes to maneuver Ceredigion's key players into position and outsmart the kingdom's enemies--even those still concealed in shadow?
Within The Hollow Crown
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Author : Margaret Campbell Barnes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1947
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Based on the life of Richard II.
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Author : Diana Pharaoh Francis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
The Hollow Crown written by Diana Pharaoh Francis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Imaginary places categories.
"After the murders of the king and queen, the island empire of Crosspointe is on the verge of chaos. The ruthless lord chancellor has taken the throne and made slaves of most of the royal family. Majick has inexplicably ceased to work, and majicars have begun attacking one another in the streets of Sylmont. Now in order to save the country they love from utter destruction. The king's heirs are determined to rally whatever allies they have left and overthrow the lord chancellor before the Jutras invade ..."--Page 4 of cover.
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
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John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Shakespeare and the Performing Arts, The Kennedy Center by arrangement with the Denver Centre for the Performing Arts and Paul Elliot & Duncan C. Weldon presents the Royal Shakespeare Company Production, Michael Redgrave, Peggy Ashcroft, Roy Dotrice, Paul Hardwick, songs guitar and lute Martin Best in "The Hollow Crown," an entertainment by and about the Kings and Queens of England: music, poetry, speeches, letters, and other writings from the Chronicles, from plays in the monarch's own words, also music concerning them and by them, devised and directed by John Barton, designed by Anna Steiner.