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Carregando... We Speak No Treason (The Flowering of the Rose Book 1) (original: 1971; edição: 2006)de Rosemary Hawley Jarman (Autor)
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. The first in two books about Richard III, the first part from the point of view of a young girl in love with him, the second from the Fool. The first part is narrated by the Nut-Brown Maid, a girl who falls in love with the young Richard. Through her eyes, we see the politics at the heart of the English court, as Richard's star ascends. The Maiden's life is forever changed by her relationship with Richard, ultimately showing him more loyalty than he shows her. The second part is narrated by Patch, the Fool, a gift from Edward to Duke Richard. Patch's narrative is not clouded by love, indeed he resents Richard for taking him away from court. While not as popular as Edward, Richard comes across as a serious man, who looks ahead. The book was written in the '70s, and, despite the cover art of the copy I have being similar to that of books by Philippa Gregory, Jarman's work is less of a romance, rather more historical fiction. I found it an enjoyable read, interesting to see another side to one of Shakespeare's villains. One huge drawback is that there appear to only be 4 names in use in England at the time, so you really have to pay attention! sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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Richard III lives again through the eyes of his intimates and the woman whose ill-starred love brought him brief joy, and her a bitter consummation. Against the background of lusty, fifteenth-century England, with its superstition and witchcraft, its courtly manners and cruel punishments, Rosemary Hawley Jarman presents a fascinating and faithful portrait of one of the most enigmatic figures in our history as he appeared to his contemporaries. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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But to Ms Jarman's book. This is a really good, well-written, beautifully imagined historical novel. She avoids the knee-slapping fustian of "Gadzooks, my lord!", inventing a hybrid language between modern and medieval speech, which swings the story along: "Gardening is all of my pleasure now. It was ever more a joy than a duty, to watch the tender shoots burst forth in spring, and to know that I had a part of them, in the cold season".
There's a richness and immediacy to it all: the casting of weird spells to ensnare King Edward, the Maiden watching the far-off revels at Court from her draughty hiding place above, the old nun at the end casting her beautiful embroidery as a pall over the dead king...
Here Richard is portrayed as the verray parfit gentil knight. An alternative, what-might-have-been history.