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What was settled at the field of Bosworth in 1485? Well, it ended a long dynastic struggle that filled so much of the fifteenth century with alarms and excursions, battles, feuds, the deaths of kings and princes, noble murders. The story of that century, which achieved a kind of culmination and received its quietus at Bosworth, was so dramatic that it inspired a prolific literature in prose and verse in the next century, reaching its summit with the historyplays of Shakespeare, a full canvas covering it all, from the Revolution of 1399 to Bosworth. That victory ended the rule of the male line of the Plantagenets and brought in the new dynasty of the Tudors. It altered the story of England, changed the succession of its kings. Bosworth Field was all the more dramatic in that the victor, Henry Tudor, had hardly ever been seen in England, was "a figure totally unknown to almost all of his suddenly acquired subjects."! While R ichard III, who was defeated and killed there, had taken a leading part in the government of England for more than a decade under his brother, Edward IV, before usurping the throne that was his brother's son's. Richard had long been a well-known, a too well-known

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Author

A. L. Rowse (auth.)

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan

Published

1966

Language

EN

ISBN

9781349000401

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Anthropology, Humanities