Believe it or not, but I managed to finalise this month´s spin. My number 9 was Richard III by William Shakespeare. I am not good at reading Shakespeare, but this seemed easier to approach. The reason being that I have recently read quite a lot about this time, in connection with the finding of his bones in Leicester. The drama is not a very long, I read it as an e-book and it went rather smoothly.
The beginning was a little bit confusing, including a lot a characters I do not remember. Ideally, one should look them up and check up the history.
However, I am travelling and there was no time.
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Time has shown us a development in the interpretation of historical events, and this is also the case here. Partly, the drama felt a little bit out of date, but it is a drama after all. It was written during Tudor times (during the reign of Elizabeth I) and the first Tudor, Henry VII, beat his enemy Richard III at the battle of Bosworth. But a classic is a classic, and has to be approached from the time it was written. I just read through without too much thought of the beauty of the text or the excellence of Shakespeare´s language. It will be for another time. I finally got to the famous lines, ”A horse, a horse, a kingdom for a horse”.
I have written a few reviews on Richard III and his time, as well as of a visit to Leicester to visit the tomb of Richard III. For those interested you find them here.
Richard III and the Princes in the Tower by A.J. Pollard
The Search for Richard III - The King´s Grave by Philippa Langley and Michael Jones
How did you do with your classic challenge?
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