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Article: Jonathan Hughes: The Religious Life of Richard III: Piety and Prayer in the North of England.
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- September 1, 1998
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Is it possible for us to enter the thought patterns of a western European who died before the Reformation? That cataclysmic event attempted to invade the most private parts of the human psyche, where ultimate allegiances lie. Before 1520 almost every thinking European believed without question the Christian view of destiny, whereby wickedness unrepented led to eternal damnation, but that the Sacrament of Penance, sincerely received, could absolve all. The Reformation broke, for Protestant, that unswerving faith in the powers of the Confessional. Shakespeare wrote from our side of that divide. His Richard III wears the trappings of the state religion without believing a ...
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Transcript: Actor Describes `Richard III' as a Play for All ...
Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR);
January 13, 1996 ;
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... ... newest adaptation of Shakespeare's Richard III, set in England during the 1930s ... SIMON, Host: Shakespeare's Richard III is every man's villain - the ... throne. A new film version of Richard III moves the king from the 1480s to ...
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