Richard II

Warner, Kathryn

£10.99

New paperback edition – A new biography re-examining the complex and fascinating king, whose very humanity saw him deposed from his divine role.

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Publish Date: 15/08/2019
ISBN: 9781445694412 Category:

Description

Richard II is a figure famous in England’s national myths – the king who went insane, the narcissist, the tyrant of Shakespeare’s play. History regards his rule either as that of a superhuman monarch or a crazed and vicious ruler. But Richard II was a complex and conflicted man – a person with faults and shortcomings thrust into a role that demanded greatness. In this book, Kathryn Warner returns with the first modern biography of Richard II in decades, to paint a portrait of the king with all of his strengths and imperfections left in the picture. An aesthete and patron of the arts as well as a person troubled by a much-maligned ‘personality disorder’, Richard II here emerges from behind the mask of a theatrical character.

Additional information

Weight 313 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 24 mm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

352 , 16 unnumbered of plates

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

942.038092 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K