![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That war, a prolonged, intermittent conflict between the two noble houses of Lancaster and York which began in 1455, was closer to Shakespeare and his generation than are the Napoleonic wars to the present generation. Shakespeare's Richard III covers events in the latter years of the Wars of the Roses - that is, from the attainder and execution of George, Duke of Clarence, in 1478, to the defeat of Richard III at Bosworth Field in 1485. ![]()
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