William Shakespeare’s play ‘Richard III’ illustrates how a power-hungry monarch can attain the throne at the expense of civil society.

Richard, 3rd Duke of York, 6th Earl of March ... and served in various offices of state in France at the end of the Hundred Years' War, and in England, ultimately governing the country as Lord ...

After a ransom was paid he returned to England to find his brother John plotting to usurp the throne. Richard I's coronation took place in the Abbey on 3rd September 1189 and is the first for which a ...