Shakespeare and the Remains of Richard III

by Philip Schwyzer

Book Overview

This book explores how recollections and traces of the reign of Richard III survived a century and more to influence the world and work of William Shakespeare. In Richard III, Shakespeare depicts an era that had only recently passed beyond the horizon of living memory. The years between Shakespeare's birth in 1564 and the composition of the play in the early 1590s would have seen the deaths of the last witnesses to Richard's reign. Yet even after...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198728034
• ISBN13: 9780198728030
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.6"