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...Hugh Farrington, owner of Country Kitchen, remains confident that Mug n Muffin will not pose a serious threat to his restaurant...
...KILLING OF RICHARD III by ROBERT FARRINGTON 287 pages. Scribners...
...Killing of Richard III, Robert Farrington is something of a Richardist but more of an entertainer. His hero-modern, brisk, amused-is James Bond in a baldric, a lewd, shrewd "clerk" who undertakes secret missions for the king. Seen through his eyes, Richard comes off as a reasonably decent Renaissance statesman, astute in the chancellery but stupid in the field...
...Author Farrington acquits Richard of murdering his wife and the Duke of Clarence and, all things considered, is inclined to suspect Richard's treacherous friend, "the deep-revolving witty Buckingham" (as Shakespeare called him), of finishing off the princes in the Tower. Richard had nothing to gain from the crime, Farrington reasons; as certified bastards, the princes were no longer a real threat to his legitimacy. Buckingham's motive? He hoped to overthrow Richard by making him seem a monster. The princes, moreover, were a potential obstacle from Buckingham's own path to the throne. These ideas...
Read about him till the shelves are empty, Richard will still be an enigma. Farrington to the contrary, many authorities agree that Richard was not astute; he was principled, even moralistic. Raised in the wilds of Yorkshire, he was a deep-country conservative, almost religiously loyal to his liege - even, it appears, to his wife. But in an age of scurrying change, the old pieties were giving way before the impact of the new humanism, nationalism, and the rising power of the middle class. A study of Richard's legislation suggests strongly that in the course of his brief...