Richard II: A True King's Fall
Richard II: A True King's Fall by Kathryn Warner
English | October 19, 2017 | ASIN: B076M5MZV5, ISBN: 1445662787 | AZW3 | 426 pages | 1.7 MB
English | October 19, 2017 | ASIN: B076M5MZV5, ISBN: 1445662787 | AZW3 | 426 pages | 1.7 MB
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.