![]() ![]() ![]() There is somethingfascinating about how she places you in the Middle Ages by subtly weaving manyconvincing details of medieval life and scenery into the action. Penman masterfully brings thecharacters to life, using only one major fictional person. ![]() His few inadequacies and frailties lend himbelievability and a touching humanity.Īlthough the novel remains true toactual events, it is not like reading a textbook. In contrast to the play's overly dramatized, evil hunchback, thisbook paints the portrait of a handsome, unassuming man whose life is governed bya strict, inner conscience. ![]() So history is often written by thevictor, but through exhaustive research she has managed to uncover a moreaccurate truth. Penman skillfully redeems Richard III, unjustly vilifiedby Shakespeare's play and Tudor historians. As I drifted through the displays on Richard III and the kingmaker,I thought of The Sunne in Splendour, Sharon Kay Penman's brilliant historicalnovel relating the turbulent events of the 33-year War of the Roses in 15thCentury England. History hungheavy in the air within these vast, stone halls where the futures of kings wereonce decided. I stood on the lofty battlements of Warwick Castle (boasted to be England'sgreatest) and gazed at the courtyard, bustling with re-enactors. ![]()
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