The Battle for Bosworth Range: A Play in One Act

by James W. Clarke

Overview

Prize winning play at Leicestershire One Act Play Festival, achieving Best Use of Stage, 2 Best Young Player awards and Nomination of Best Actress for part of Prudence. The Battle for Bosworth Range is a one act play about the murder of the princes in the Tower. The action is set in The Last Plantagenet Saloon, in the town of Raven, Bosworth County, in the American west of the late nineteenth century. The play suggests that Richard III was set up as culprit for a murder actually carried out by the person who had most to gain from the princes's death - their sister, Elizabeth of York, who on their death became the Yorkist heiress and so married Henry Tudor and became queen.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781502396525
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	10/01/2014
Series:	History Plays
Pages:	60
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.16(d)

About the Author

James Clarke has always been interested in both Shakespeare and history. His history plays explore past events from unusual angles. In the case of The Battle for Bosworth Range, the question of who gains from a murder plays a large part in the action.