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...Richard III? Macbeth? The sly, double-crossing Edmund from King Lear? No, it’s Falstaff, the roguish old knight who hangs out with Prince Hal in east London’s less reputable taverns in Henry IV....
...Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos 21 and 24 Robert Levin After a 20-year hiatus, fortepiano specialist Robert Levin and the Academy of Ancient Music have come together again to complete their promising cycle...
...The crowning of Charles III will be as close as the new King comes to receiving public acclamation in the absence of a ballot....
...In 1995’s Jack & Sarah, the needs of his infant daughter force Richard E Grant’s devastated widower back into contact with the world....
...Several members of the York family were deeply unhappy at Shakespeare’s depiction of Richard III, which portrayed their beloved leader as a homicidal hunchback when, in fact, he spent most of his life as...
...King Charles III is not Queen Elizabeth II, obviously. It also reopens and reinvigorates discussions about the monarch’s involvement in politics, the topic of a great piece by Robert Shrimsley today....
...King Richard III yesterday reached an out-of-court settlement with Elizabeth Woodville, former Queen consort to his brother Edward IV, over her claims that he had murdered three of her sons and her brother...
...He also supports emerging talent and has taken an interest in the careers of artists such as Nicolas Party in tandem with representing the estates of Robert Mapplethorpe, Louise Bourgeois and Richard Artschwager...
...Patriots Almeida Theatre, London It’s a scene worthy of Shakespeare’s Richard III....
...Richard Fairman speaks to the living legend among American arts administrators, to find out what’s next for her, and the orchestra....
...George III pleaded: “I am sorry to say the King of England is not so rich a man.” But Our Billy prevailed. Richard Moon Edinburgh, UK...
...Ed Markey, a 74-year-old US senator, staved off a challenge from Joe Kennedy III, a 39-year-old grandson of Robert F Kennedy and great-nephew of John F Kennedy....
...King Richard III, very good of you to invite us to the Tower. Getting in is easy, my dear. Getting out is the tricky part. Indeed....
...A few items are estimated under £1,000, including an editioned painted window frame by Richard Woods (2008, est £100-£200)....
...Robert Shrimsley imagines how past royals, including Richard III or Henry II, would have responded to a BBC Newsnight grilling....
...Despite these indignities, Richard Cobden, Victorian liberal reformer and MP, stands four-square against the oncoming traffic, his right hand clutching a rolled up document — the treaty that prompted the...
...Most vivid of all is the turncoat Frenchman Sir Guichard D’Angle who finished his days as Richard II’s tutor — no doubt in the black arts....
...Richard Portes: Better, but not by much. Vicky Pryce: Worse....
...In practice, the only successful instance, other than Nixon, of Americans removing a leader was George III....
...In 1576, he was part of a diplomatic delegation visiting the French court of Henri III, with the purpose of painting the king’s brother and Elizabeth’s prospective suitor François, duke of Anjou....
...By his teens, Richard was acting there; by his early twenties, playing Shakespeare’s snarling villain Richard III, he was already a sensation. Offstage, however, he disappears into the shadows....
...Richard W Gates III’s rise was tethered to that of Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s one-time campaign manager. Now his fall may come in lockstep too....
...Robert Armstrong is editor of the FT’s Lex column Photographs: Harry Mitchell...
...After the 1979 Booker prize, for instance, one of the judges, Hilary Spurling, blithely revealed that the winner, Penelope Fitzgerald’s novel Offshore, had been “everybody’s second choice”....
...Awaking from nightmares of his murdered opponents, the king starts up in terror before the Battle of Bosworth in William Hogarth’s poised, serpentine “David Garrick as Richard III”....
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