The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England's rulers - now in paperback Richard II (1377-99) came to the throne as a child, following the long, domineering, martial reign of his grandfather Edward III. He suffered from the disastrous combination of a most exalted sense of his own power and an inability to impress that power on those closest to the throne. Neither trusted nor feared, Richard battled with a whole series of failures and emergencies before finally succumbing to a coup, imprisonment and murder. Laura Ashe's brilliant account of his reign emphasizes the strange gap between Richard's personal incapacity and the amazing cultural legacy of his reign - from the Wilton Diptych to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Piers Plowman and The Canterbury Tales.
Laura Ashe Knihy
Laura Ashe je profesorkou anglickej literatúry. Jej práca sa zameriava na literárne dejiny a kritiku, pričom skúma, ako sa texty a ich interpretácie vyvíjali v priebehu storočí. Ashe sa snaží odhaliť hlbšie významy a súvislosti v literárnych dielach a ponúknuť čitateľom nový pohľad na známych aj menej známych autorov. Jej akademický prístup kombinuje starostlivý výskum s originálnymi myšlienkami, čo z nej robí rešpektovanú postavu v odbore.
