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A four-speaker, three-singer stage anthology dramatizes material associated with British monarchs from William the Conqueror to Queen Victoria. It combines royal speeches and letters with chronicles, songs, poems and excerpts from historical and literary accounts.
John Barton's three-play adaptation combines Shakespeare's four history plays about the Wars of the Roses into a trilogy: Henry VI, Edward IV, and Richard III. It follows the struggle between Lancaster and York for England's throne, presenting political power as a violent cycle that culminates in Richard III's rise and fall.
A four-speaker, three-singer stage anthology dramatizes material associated with British monarchs from William the Conqueror to Queen Victoria. It combines royal speeches and letters with chronicles, songs, poems and excerpts from historical and literary accounts.
John Barton's three-play adaptation combines Shakespeare's four history plays about the Wars of the Roses into a trilogy: Henry VI, Edward IV, and Richard III. It follows the struggle between Lancaster and York for England's throne, presenting political power as a violent cycle that culminates in Richard III's rise and fall.