King Edward IV

The play was submitted gratuitously to Charles Kemble for fund-raising to avert the theatre's closure. It was the first of IH 's dramas to be performed, and ran for twelve nights. The lead role of...

The Plantagenet series concluded with two novels issued in 1982: Red Rose of Anjou, about the now adult Henry VI and his queen, Margaret of Anjou , and The Sun in Splendour, about Edward IV .

MSC 's preface says that in this age of adultery she hopes to deter other women from following the example of Jane, who became a mistress, albeit to a king (Edward IV ). Jane...

Under a perfunctory pretence of writing about the monarchs Henry VI and Edward IV , with dignifying chapter-headings from Shakespeare , Milton , Thomson , Prior , Gray , Pope , and the poems of...

GLM spent her mature married life at the splendid Apethorpe Hall near Peterborough in Northamptonshire, which her father had acquired from King Edward IV in exchange for other property. The royal connection was continued...

During this decade, the time of the Wars of the Roses, STM was involved in both political and literary activity. He appears to have switched his allegiance from the Yorkists to the Lancastrians. He was...