Word: plantagenets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Richard the Third, by Paul Murray Kendall. A spirited historian tilts a lance with Shakespeare to prove that Richard III was no worse than a 15th century Plantagenet should be (TIME, Sept...
Richard III (London Films; Lopert), the chronicle of England's last Plantagenet* king (1452-85), is one of the most powerful yet one of the clumsiest and least poetic plays that Shakespeare wrote. It is magnificently produced in this film translation by Sir Laurence Olivier, who not only directed the picture with taste and skill of a high order, but also "monkeyed around" with the Shakespeare script -cutting, transposing, and sometimes just plain changing-in a wickedly ingenious way. The cast Olivier has assembled is a Who's Who of the British theater-Sir John Gielgud, Sir Ralph...
...truth: that Pierre is really a bastard son of the Duchess of Burgundy and the Bishop of Cambrai. Thus, as the proud, yellow-haired pretender is led to the gallows and his bride languishes an unwilling attendant at Henry's court, it may be that Pierre has the Plantagenet blood in him after all. But everybody is too exhausted to care much...
...Louis too; he agreed to have their marriage annulled-on the ground that they were fourth cousins and were not rightly wed in the first place. Before the year (1152) was out, Eleanor conferred her person and her provinces, which covered a third of France, on hot-blooded Henry Plantagenet, Duke of Normandy and King Louis' great enemy...
...Honey Spread. By Eleanor's alliance the Plantagenet adventure was loosed on Europe, France and Britain were pounded into dusty poverty under half a century of campaigns, the feudal system itself was staggered. Yet, also, the sweet Provengal culture was spread like honey over Britain, and three sun-washed, heroic figures rose for a long moment against the Dark Ages. They were the three great Plantagenets: Henry II, Eleanor, and their son Richard the Lion Heart. The greatest of them was Eleanor herself, though centuries passed before the world realized...