"on 25 June 1483. The Duke of Gloucester, as the only surviving brother of Edward IV, became King Richard III. The Duke of York was sent to the Tower of London, then a royal residence, by King Richard III in mid-1483, where he was held with his brother. They were sometimes seen in the garden of the Tower, but there are no known sightings of them after the summer of 1483. What happened to the two of them—the Princes in the Tower—after their disappearance remains unknown. Tudor History was quick to blame his uncle, Richard. Thomas More wrote that the"
"with MOR (a pun on his name, Mor-ton). However, this monument is a cenotaph since his actual body was buried in the crypt's central chapel of the Virgin Mary, according to his wishes. Morton was a mentor of the young Sir Thomas More. More served as a page in Morton's house, acted in revels at Morton's court at Knole House, the archiepiscopal palace, and later mentioned him in his work ""Utopia"". Although most scholars credit More with authoring the ""History of King Richard III"", they debate the issue of the original authorship as More was only seven when Richard III"
"The Coast of Utopia The Coast of Utopia is a 2002 trilogy of plays: ""Voyage"", ""Shipwreck"", and ""Salvage"", written by Tom Stoppard with focus on the philosophical debates in pre-revolution Russia between 1833 and 1866. It was the recipient of the 2007 Tony Award for Best Play. The title comes from a chapter in Avrahm Yarmolinsky's book ""Road to Revolution: A Century of Russian Radicalism"" (1959). The trilogy, nine hours in total, premiered with ""Voyage"" on 22 June 2002 at the National Theatre's Olivier auditorium in repertory, directed by Trevor Nunn. The openings of ""Shipwreck"" and ""Salvage"" followed on 8"
"Utopia (book) Utopia (""Libellus vere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festivus, de optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia"") is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More (1478–1535) published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of life in monasteries. The title ""De optimo rei publicae statu deque nova insula Utopia"" literally translates, ""Of a republic's best state and of the new island Utopia"". It is variously rendered as any of"
"Richard III (play) Richard III is a historical play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written around 1593. It depicts the Machiavellian rise to power and subsequent short reign of King Richard III of England. The play is grouped among the histories in the First Folio and is most often classified as such. Occasionally, however, as in the quarto edition, it is termed a tragedy. ""Richard III"" concludes Shakespeare's first tetralogy (also containing ""Henry VI"" parts 1–3). It is the second longest play in the canon after ""Hamlet"" and is the longest of the First Folio, whose version of"
"wrote a history of Richard III of England. William Shakespeare continued in this tradition through his history plays that covered the 15th century: ""Richard II"", ""Henry IV, Part 1"", ""Henry IV, Part 2"", ""Henry V"", ""Henry VI, Part 1"", ""Henry VI, Part 2"", ""Henry VI, Part 3"", and ""Richard III"". This tradition dominated the writing of British/Commonwealth-American history up until the twentieth century. However, Horace Walpole and Sir George Buck contradicted this dominant school of historiography during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The revisionist historian Paul Murray Kendall, author of ""Richard III"" (1956), among others, was instrumental in drawing the"
"New Atlantis by Francis Bacon, Erewhon by Samuel Butler, and Candide by Voltaire. Although Utopianism combined classical concepts of perfect societies (Plato and Aristotle) with Roman rhetorical finesse (cf. Cicero, Quintilian, epideictic oratory), the Renaissance genre continued into the Age of Enlightenment and survives in modern science fiction. In 1520 the reformer Martin Luther published three works in quick succession: ""An Appeal to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation"" (Aug.), ""Concerning the Babylonish Captivity of the Church"" (Oct.), and ""On the Liberty of a Christian Man"" (Nov.). In these books, Luther set out his doctrine of salvation through grace"
"Richard III (biography) Richard III is a biography of said King of England by American historian Paul Murray Kendall. The book, published in 1955, has remained the standard popular work on the controversial monarch. The book is divided into two major parts, with a prologue, an epilogue and two appendices. The work was critically very well received and was a runner-up for the National Book Award in 1956, also picked one of the best books of the year by the American Library Association. In the ""Chicago Tribune"", A. L. Rowse called it ""The best biography of Richard III that has"
"literature featuring Richard III is William Shakespeare's ""Richard III"", which is believed to have been written in 1591, a century after the King's death. It was the final part of a tetralogy of plays about the Wars of the Roses. Richard also appears in the two plays preceding it, ""Henry VI, Part 2"" and ""Henry VI, Part 3"". Shakespeare depicts Richard as a deformed and malevolent individual who takes out his bitterness over his own twisted body on the world, serving only his own ambition. His self-serving amorality is the culmination of the social and moral chaos caused by power"
"he might have been slightly hunched, the degree and direction of the curvature was not as serious as that of a spinal kyphosis (or ""hunchback""), and there were no other apparent deformities. Richard III (play) Richard III is a historical play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written around 1593. It depicts the Machiavellian rise to power and subsequent short reign of King Richard III of England. The play is grouped among the histories in the First Folio and is most often classified as such. Occasionally, however, as in the quarto edition, it is termed a tragedy. ""Richard III"""
"III was killed at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485 so he had no first-hand in-depth knowledge of him. The ""History of King Richard III"" was written and published in both English and Latin, each written separately, and with information deleted from the Latin edition to suit a European readership. It greatly influenced William Shakespeare's play ""Richard III"". Contemporary historians attribute the unflattering portraits of Richard III in both works to both authors' allegiance to the reigning Tudor dynasty that wrested the throne from Richard III in the Wars of the Roses. More's version barely mentions King Henry VII, the"
"Eutopia (short story) ""Eutopia"" is a short story by American writer Poul Anderson, originally appeared in Harlan Ellison's 1967 science fiction anthology ""Dangerous Visions"". It later appeared in Anderson's 1981 collection ""The Dark Between the Stars"" and the showcase ""The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century"" (2001). At the beginning of the story, the protagonist (Iason Philippou) is exploring various parallel universes. After encountering a version of Earth which is split into hundreds of minor city-states, Iason is now on the run. He makes his way to a town whose inhabitants help him, as he is their guest."
"advertisement for the singular narrative seductiveness of drama."" The production was nominated for ten Tony Awards and won seven, breaking the Tony record for the most awards given to a play. The following table indicates the roles played by the main cast in London, New York, and Moscow, respectively. Several principal actors played multiple roles in each of the three plays. The Coast of Utopia The Coast of Utopia is a 2002 trilogy of plays: ""Voyage"", ""Shipwreck"", and ""Salvage"", written by Tom Stoppard with focus on the philosophical debates in pre-revolution Russia between 1833 and 1866. It was the recipient"
"is Iason's lover. Algis Budrys said that Anderson wrote better ""when he is not also attempting to shock people. I think he could do best by contenting himself to lead people to think, as he has been doing for many years now. That's usually shock enough"". Eutopia (short story) ""Eutopia"" is a short story by American writer Poul Anderson, originally appeared in Harlan Ellison's 1967 science fiction anthology ""Dangerous Visions"". It later appeared in Anderson's 1981 collection ""The Dark Between the Stars"" and the showcase ""The Best Alternate History Stories of the 20th Century"" (2001). At the beginning of the"
"""Utopia"" well. ... The principals sing with fine style and admirable diction."" Unlike the D'Oyly Carte recording the later set has dialogue, though ""Opera News"" considered that some performers ""lack dramatic variety in the spoken dialogue"". Utopia, Limited Utopia, Limited; or, The Flowers of Progress, is a Savoy opera, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It was the second-to-last of Gilbert and Sullivan's fourteen collaborations, premiering on 7 October 1893 for a run of 245 performances. It did not achieve the success of most of their earlier productions. Gilbert's libretto satirises limited liability companies, and"
"""Aristopia."" The eighteenth-century freethinker John Fransham (1730–1810) left a posthumous manuscript titled ""Memorablilia Classica"", which contains a piece called ""The Code of Aristopia, or Scheme for a Perfect Government."" Aristopia Aristopia: A Romance-History of the New World is an 1895 utopian novel by Castello Holford, considered the first novel-length alternate history in English (and among the earliest alternate histories in general). Though part of the major wave utopian and dystopian literature that distinguished the final decades of the nineteenth century, Holford's book reverses the normal stance of utopian projection: instead of imagining a better society at a future time or"
"Aristopia Aristopia: A Romance-History of the New World is an 1895 utopian novel by Castello Holford, considered the first novel-length alternate history in English (and among the earliest alternate histories in general). Though part of the major wave utopian and dystopian literature that distinguished the final decades of the nineteenth century, Holford's book reverses the normal stance of utopian projection: instead of imagining a better society at a future time or in a far-off place, he supposes that the founding of the United States occurred under different conditions and follows its development forward to a superior society in his own"
"Sunne in Splendour"". Elizabeth George writes of the fictional discovery of an exonerating document in her short story ""I Richard"". Science Fiction writer Andre Norton, in the 1965 novel ""Quest Crosstime"", depicted an alternate history in which Richard III won at Bosworth and turned out to be one of England's greatest kings, ""achieving the brilliance of the Elizabethan era two generations earlier"". The Richard III Society was founded in 1924 by Liverpool surgeon S. Saxon Barton as The Fellowship of the White Boar, Richard's badge and a symbol of the Yorkist army in the Wars of the Roses. Its membership"
"in Devon. Between 1512 and 1519 More worked on a ""History of King Richard III"", which he never finished but which was published after his death. The ""History"" is a Renaissance biography, remarkable more for its literary skill and adherence to classical precepts than for its historical accuracy. Some consider it an attack on royal tyranny, rather than on Richard III himself or the House of York. More uses a more dramatic writing style than had been typical in medieval chronicles; Richard III is limned as an outstanding, archetypal tyrant - however, More was only seven years old when Richard"
"to enhance his partisanship, the book is soundly based on a wide range of primary sources, for which it shows a proper respect."""" Richard III (biography) Richard III is a biography of said King of England by American historian Paul Murray Kendall. The book, published in 1955, has remained the standard popular work on the controversial monarch. The book is divided into two major parts, with a prologue, an epilogue and two appendices. The work was critically very well received and was a runner-up for the National Book Award in 1956, also picked one of the best books of the"
"III"" and a historical novel called ""The Rose of Raby"" by ""Evelyn Payne-Ellis"", about the life of Richard's mother Cecily Neville. Both Tanner's history and the novel are non-existent; it has been suggested that the title of the latter is derived from Guy Paget's 1937 biography of the same name. Other alleged historical myths touched upon by the author are the commonly believed (but false) story that troops fired on the public at the 1910 Tonypandy Riot, the traditional depiction of the Boston Massacre, the martyrdom of Margaret Wilson and the life and death of Mary, Queen of Scots. Grant"
"Warlords of Utopia Warlords of Utopia is an original novel by Lance Parkin set in the Faction Paradox universe. It has been described as 'possibly [Parkin's] finest accomplishment to date'. Parkin developed the idea for a ""Doctor Who"" book that was not published. The published version is his second attempt to write it for Faction Paradox. The first was turned down by editor Lawrence Miles. The glorious Roman Empire has ruled for nearly twenty-seven centuries when Marcus Americanius Scriptor acquires a strange bracelet from a mysterious stranger. With this bracelet, he finds he is able to travel to alternate Romes,"
"is dated 1597, and the 'newly corrected' fourth of 1624 is dedicated by the publisher, Bernard Alsop, to Cresacre More. Subsequent translators were Gilbert Burnet (1684) and Arthur Cayley (1808). From the section ""Of Lawes Not Made According to Equitie"": Ralph Robinson (humanist) Ralph Robinson (1520–1577) was an English scholar and man of letters. He is best known for his English translation of Sir Thomas More's ""Utopia"", originally written in Latin in 1516. Robinson was educated at Stamford School, Lincolnshire and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. At school he was a contemporary of William Cecil later Lord Burghley, Lord High Treasurer"
"cites ""The Republic"" of Plato and the original ""Utopia"" of Sir Thomas More, along with Edward Bellamy's ""Looking Backward"" (1888) and H. G. Wells's ""In the Days of the Comet"" (1906). Gilman pointedly calls her book ""a short-distance Utopia, a baby Utopia, a little one that can grow."" Gilman casts her protagonist into a reformed future, but without the ""element of extreme remoteness"" found in other books. Bellamy had thrust his hero Julian West 113 years ahead, from 1887 to 2000; his predecessor John Macnie hurled his narrator a full 7700 years into the future in ""The Diothas"" (1883). Gilman,"
"Utopia, Limited Utopia, Limited; or, The Flowers of Progress, is a Savoy opera, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It was the second-to-last of Gilbert and Sullivan's fourteen collaborations, premiering on 7 October 1893 for a run of 245 performances. It did not achieve the success of most of their earlier productions. Gilbert's libretto satirises limited liability companies, and particularly the idea that a bankrupt company could leave creditors unpaid without any liability on the part of its owners. It also lampoons the Joint Stock Company Act by imagining the absurd convergence of natural persons"
"Ralph Robinson (humanist) Ralph Robinson (1520–1577) was an English scholar and man of letters. He is best known for his English translation of Sir Thomas More's ""Utopia"", originally written in Latin in 1516. Robinson was educated at Stamford School, Lincolnshire and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. At school he was a contemporary of William Cecil later Lord Burghley, Lord High Treasurer of England and chief adviser to Queen Elizabeth I, and the Foreword of his translation, which is dedicated to Burghley, alludes to their school-days together. He graduated B.A. in 1540, and was elected fellow of his college Corpus on 16"
"final decades of the 19th century and the start of the 20th, in Great Britain and the United States. Whether they wrote fiction or non-fiction, most utopian writers of Hudson's generation placed a strong emphasis on technological progress as a way to a better future; examples range from Edward Bellamy's ""Looking Backward"" (1888) to King Gillette's ""The Human Drift"" (1894) to Alexander Craig's ""Ionia"" (1898) to H. G. Wells's ""A Modern Utopia"" (1905). Conversely, though, a minority of utopian writers reacted with a skepticism toward, or even a rejection of, technological progress, and favored a return to an agrarian simplicity;"
"Thomas More's ""Utopia"" (1516), Jonathan Swift's ""Gulliver's Travels"" (1726), Voltaire's ""Candide"" (1759), and Harriet Beecher Stowe's ""Uncle Tom's Cabin"" (1852). Political fiction frequently employs satire, often in the utopian and dystopian genres. This includes totalitarian dystopias of the early 20th century such as Jack London's ""The Iron Heel"", Sinclair Lewis' ""It Can't Happen Here"", and George Orwell's ""Nineteen Eighty-Four"". The Greek playwright Aristophanes' plays are known for their political and social satire, particularly in his criticism of the powerful Athenian general, Cleon, in plays such as ""The Knights"". Aristophanes is also notable for the persecution he underwent. Aristophanes' plays turned"
"Roper; another house nearby and entitled Roper House is now a home for the deaf. Note: The reference ""CW"" is to the relevant volume of the ""Yale Edition of the Complete Works of St. Thomas More"" (New Haven and London 1963–1997) Thomas More Sir Thomas More (7 February 1478 6 July 1535), venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist. He was also a councillor to Henry VIII, and Lord High Chancellor of England from October 1529 to 16 May 1532. He wrote ""Utopia"", published in 1516,"
"title suggests, the work presents an ambiguous and ironic projection of the ideal state. The whimsical nature of the text can be confirmed by the narrator of Utopia's second book, Raphael Hythloday. The Greek root of Hythloday suggests an 'expert in nonsense'. An earlier example of a Utopian work from classical antiquity is Plato's ""The Republic"", in which he outlines what he sees as the ideal society and its political system. Later examples can be seen in Samuel Johnson's ""The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia"" and Samuel Butler's ""Erewhon"", which uses an anagram of ""nowhere"" as its title. This,"
"by conservatives to endorse traditional values by comparison with an unimaginably radical other. Other works by J. C. Davis include ""Utopia and the Ideal Society: A Study of English Utopian Writing, 1516-1700"" (1983), and a biography of Gerrard Winstanley co-authored with J. D. Alsop for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. J. C. Davis J. C. (Colin) Davis is a British historian, whose work often focuses on the Utopian thinkers of the 17th-century. He has been described as a 'historian of political and religious thought and a brilliant and provocative iconoclast. The book ""Liberty, Authority, Formality: Political Ideas and Culture,"
"Utopia (Child novel) Utopia () is the first solo novel by Lincoln Child published in 2002. It is set in a futuristic amusement park called ""Utopia"", a park that relies heavily on holographics and robotics. Dr. Andrew Warne, the man who designed the program that runs the park's robots, is called in to help fix a problem. But when he gets there, he finds out that the park is being held hostage by a mysterious man known as John Doe. Utopia consists of five ""Worlds"", each modelled after different time eras. Notting Hill Chase: In Gaslight, this rollercoaster is themed"
"1978), ""Utopia and Anti-Utopia in Modern Times"" (Basil Blackwell, 1987), ""The Rise of Modern Society: Aspects of the Social and Political Development of the West"" (Basil Blackwell, 1988), ""Utopianism"" (Open University Press, 1991), ""1989: Revolutionary Ideas and Ideals"" (University of Minnesota Press, 2001) and ""The Making of English National Identity"" (Cambridge University Press, 2003). The latter was described by Bernard Crick as a ""scholarly masterpiece"" and ""the deepest and best reflection so far by a fine sociologist and an intellectual historian"". His work on utopianism, meanwhile, ""should...find an admired place in contemporary sociology"", according to Frank Webster. Kumar has also"