Word: plantagenets
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...boasts a lineage that goes back to England's Plantagenet kings (1154-1485) and a memory that goes back almost as far. Last week, when she opened an invitation from one Villiers David to a showing of his watercolors, the name struck a familiar chord. In a twinkling, Dame Edith recalled that 28 long years ago, the obscure artist wrote an obscure poem called "A Satiric Preface to a Film...
...below average height (whereas eldest brother Edward IV was a muscular giant of 6 ft. 4 in.), was not visibly deformed. "Crouch-back" probably referred to a shoulder slope induced by vigorous practice which overdeveloped the muscles of his sword arm. Shakespeare, truckling to the Tudor court, made Plantagenet Richard a monster...
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...