Richard III of England

Richard the III was without a doubt one of the most controversial kings in the history of England. During his plot to sit on the throne he managed to remove anyone that stood in his way and opposed a threat to him including the accused murder of 2 princes in a tower. In his book, Shakespeare clearly made him as an image of pure evil and of selfishness. Although written as pure evil, Richard might have not been as bad as Shakespeare portrayed. William Shakespeare was writing for the Tudors which…

conflict among the political elite in England in the second half of the fifteenth century.” The Wars of the Roses was a series of civil wars in England between King Henry VI, Edward IV, and Ricard III. The first of the civil wars began in 1455 and ended in 1485. These wars were more destructive to England than the 100 Year War, which were fought earlier in the century. The Wars of the Roses marked a power struggle between families that were descended from Edward III and from Henry IV. The…

Henry VII of England Born: 28th January 1457, Penbroke Castle, Wales. Parents: Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond. Siblings: - Married: Elizabeth of York, died 1503 Children: Arthur, Margaret, Henry VIII, Elizabeth Tudor, Mary, Edmund, Kathrine. Died: 21st April 1509, Richmond Palace. Buried 11th May 1509 in Westminster Abbey. Brief Summary (Write a brief summary of there life. Highlight the key areas of their life) Henry was born on 28th January…

In the play The Tragedy of King Richard the Second, England was compared to many different types of forms of nature. Richard is King and John of Gaunt is trying to advice Richard of the troubles that he is causing England. In Act 2 Scene 2 John of Gaunt is on his death bed and delivers a speech for King Richard to hear. This speech paints many different images of what England was before Richard became King. These comparisons to England and the garden sets a vivid picture of how these two are…

series of civil wars between the House of York and the House of Lancaster for the throne of England. Both families were families of the House of Plantagenet, which was a royal house that originated from the lands of Anjou in France. The emblem of membership worn by the York’s war a white rose and a red rose for the Lancastrians in turn the war was named the war of the roses. In 1422 Henry VI became Kind of England and thank to his father’s (Henry V) war success he was also King of France.…

Shakespeare's extant work consists of many plays, sonnets and narrative poems. His plays are one of literature's greatest legacies, which are divided into many genres such as histories, tragedies and comedies. From famous tragedies like Macbeth and Richard III, there are many similarities as well as differences. These similarities and differences are shown in the stories plot, the character's personalities as well as actions and also how Shakespeare included the role of the supernatural in both…

Kings Richard, John and Henry were highly different men. Richard was popular and celebrated, and his reign did not bear many difficulties to him since his interest lay on crusading. John was deceitful and callous, but he was a fair judge. And Henry was spineless and powerless through most of his reign. Though visibly different, all of them were faulty kings in their own ways. Richard became King of England after his father's death in 1189. Though remembered in history as a crusader who had done…

London are the Edward V and Richard, Duke of York. Edward V was born in 1470, and his brother Richard, Duke of York was born three years later in 1473. They were the sons of King Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville. Their imprisonment and sudden disappearance has been one of history’s greatest secrets. No one truly knows what happened to Edward V and his brother…

ages. Two rival dynasties were fighting over land in a struggle that is marked by numerous battles, multiple characters, and disregarded treaty after disregarded treaty. The land in question, known as Aquitaine or Guyenne, should have belonged to England, but was being treated as a French territory causing a conflict that would span over the rule of different monarchs on both sides. The war was long enough to be divided into three periods; the Edwardian War, Caroline War, and Lancastrian War…

study all the aspects in the play itself. Shakespeare is good for teaching moral values. I will discuss three Shakespearean plays, in order to prove to what extent each play is morality play, or maybe not. The plays I would like to examine are: Richard III, Henry IV, and Julius Caesar. First of all I want to define the morality…