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Richard II
Kathryn Warner
其他書名
A True King's Fall
出版Amberley Publishing Limited, 2017-10-15
主題History / Europe / MedievalBiography & Autobiography / Royalty
ISBN14456627959781445662794
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=UPI6DwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.