Richard III week

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On Vulpes this Week
All this week, we are marking the anniversary (on Thursday) of the
death of Richard III of England at the battle of Bosworth Field.
MONDAY: Moira starts the ball rolling with what she calls 'a
freestyle riff' on Shakespeare's incomparable Richard III ... an
unsurpassed study in pure, unapologetic villainy.
TUESDAY: Richard III Week continues with Jackie reviewing, in her own
words: "One of the most popular retellings of the story of the tragic
king, Sharon Kay Penman's somber The Sunne in Splendor."
WEDNESDAY: Emma Darwin has centre stage, talking about how and why
she centred her new novel, A Secret Alchemy, on Richard III's
enemies, and why she's ordered a bullet-proof vest for publication
day . . .
THURSDAY: Historian Dr Gillian Polack joins us and explains - in The
Shadows in History's Eye - why the real villain of the piece is, in
fact, Sir John Everett Millais. (She thinks she might like to borrow
Emma's bullet-proof vest if she has no immediate need for it.)
FRIDAY: Rosy uses Richard III Week as another excuse to waffle on
about Shakespeare in film with Olivier's and McKellen's versions
figuring in there somewhere.
SATURDAY: It's Moira again with a review of Richard III: The Maligned
King by Annette Carson - the first major positive reassessment of the
reign of Richard for over 25 years. (There'll be a giveaway too ....
one freebie copy is up for grabs.)
SUNDAY: Finally, Annette Carson herself will be joining us to close
the week, in a chat covering aerobatics, rock music and (eventually,
when we got around to it) whether or not the truth about Richard III
actually matters.
****Comments throughout the week are open to everyone: please feel
free to join in. If at least ONE knock-down drag-out doesn't develop
we'll be deeply disappointed ...



Richard liveth yet


Richard liveth yet