Jeremy Potter (1922–1997)
Autore di Good King Richard?
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Opere di Jeremy Potter
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Potter, Ronald Jeremy
- Altri nomi
- Potter, Jeremy
- Data di nascita
- 1922-04-22
- Data di morte
- 1997-11-15
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Attività lavorative
- biographer
historical writer
mystery novelist
historical mystery novelist - Relazioni
- Newman, Margaret Edith (wife)
Newman, Bernard (father-in-law) - Organizzazioni
- Richard III Society
- Breve biografia
- Ronald Jeremy Potter (b. 22 April 1922 - d. 15 November 1997), was a British writer. On 11 February 1950, he married the also writer, Margaret Edith Newman (1926-1998), eldest daughter of the writer Bernard Newman (1897-1968). They had two children: Jocelyn and Jonathan Potter.
Jeremy Potter wrote contemporary and historical mystery novels and non-fiction books.
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 15
- Utenti
- 184
- Popolarità
- #117,736
- Voto
- 3.3
- Recensioni
- 5
- ISBN
- 34
- Lingue
- 1
Let us be clear: Richard III was certainly not the incarnation of evil portrayed by William Shakespeare, who took a piece of near-fiction and further fictionalized it. Neither was Richard III the near-saint found in books such as The Daughter of Time.
To try to learn the truth, we need not only to assess our very limited genuine sources (the Croyland Chronicle, Mancini, etc.) but also the way people have viewed Richard III over the years. We need to know this to be able to sift the evidence and analysis compiled since Richard's own time.
This book sets out to do that. But, sadly, it is compiled by an author who most emphatically belongs to the pro-Richard camp. I can't entirely disagree; I'm mildly pro-Richard myself. But it affects the course of Potter's arguments. The book is useful in many ways. But in the end, it joins the large pile of propagandistic books about Richard (e.g. the twentieth century opposing "biographies" by Paul Murray Kendall and Desmond Seward and the work-of-fiction-labelled-as-biography by Alison Weir) rather than the handful of genuine works of historiography.
It is possible to write good solid books about Richard III -- Charles Ross did it with a mostly anti-Richard volume, and Anthony Cheetham did it with his much kinder biography. If two such scholars had collaborated to edit a volume such as Potter's, it would do the historical world a genuine service. As it is -- this book is worth having, but it isn't going to resolve any of the great issues in Ricardian scholarship.… (altro)