Reading Richard III and the Tower of London

This is the first book on Richard III and the Tower of London, shedding new light on the King's reputation, the Castle's lore, and early-modern literature's role in building associations between them. It is also one of the first books to integrate conceptual blending theory and spatial literary studies.

Autorentext

Kristen Deiter is a Professor of English at Tennessee Tech University, where she teaches Shakespeare, courses on medieval and early modern English literature, and courses on critical approaches to literature. She has published articles in The Seventeenth Century, Symbolism, Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Reforme, Comparative Drama, Philological Quarterly, and other journals, and a book, The Tower of London in English Renaissance Drama: Icon of Opposition.

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List of Figures

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

2. Thomas Legge's Richardus Tertius (1579)

3. The True Tragedy of Richard the Third (1589)

4. William Shakespeare's 2 Henry VI (1591), 3 Henry VI (1591), and Richard III (1593)

5. Thomas Heywood's The First and Second Parts of King Edward the Fourth (1599)

6. Coda: Remembering Richard III: Three Early-seventeenth-century Poems

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