SHAKESPEARE’S HISTORY PLAYS THE WAR OF THE ROSES ASSOC. PROF SHAKESPEARE’S HISTORY PLAYS THE WAR OF THE ROSES ASSOC. PROF. SILA SENLEN GUVENC

RICHARD III ENGLISH HISTORY PLAY

SHAKESPEARE’S ENGLISH HISTORY PLAYS King John Richard II Henry IV, part 1 Henry IV, part 2 Henry V Henry VI, part 1 Henry VI, part 2 Henry VI, part 3 Richard III Henry VIII

Tetralogy on the War of the Roses: Henry VI, part 1 Henry VI, part 2 Henry VI, part 3 Richard III

The War of the Roses (1455-1487) Fought between the forces of King Henry VI and his wife Margaret of Anjou (House of Lancaster), and representatives of the House of York led by Richard, Duke of York and the Earl of Warwick. Both houses were branches of the Plantagenet royal house, tracing their descent from King Edward III.

The rivalry between the House of York and the House of Lancaster started when King Richard II was overthrown by his cousin Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of Lancaster.

WAR OF THE ROSES First Battle of St. Albans (1455) Battle of Northampton (1460) Battle of Wakefield (1460) Battle of Barnet (1471) Battle of Tewkesbury (1471) Battle of Bosworth Field (1485). The last battle ended both the Plantagenet dynasty and the War of the Roses, and heralded the Tudor dynasty represented by King Henry VII

Rose of Lancaster (Henry VII) Rose of York (Richard III)

HENRY VII (House of Lancaster) Richmond in Richard III

Marriage of Henry VII of Lancaster and Elizabeth of York

THE TUDOR ROSE

Laurence Olivier as Richard III

Kevin Spacey as Richard III