Dark Sovereign Reading – November 13, 2024

Presented by the Friends of Victoria University Library 

Please join us for a reading:

Guest Speaker: Robert Fripp

In person and online

Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2024, 2 p.m.
Old Vic Building, Alumni Hall, VC112

Dark Sovereign
A New Version for the Stage

The Tragedy of King Richard the Third that William Shakespeare should have written

Crafted in English as it stood in the year 1626, DARK SOVEREIGN is the only play written fluently in Tudor English during the past four hundred years.  It challenges the burden of abuse that Shakespeare heaps on the king in “The Tragedy of Richard III”. DARK SOVEREIGN weaves Richard’s tale with a truer thread; its language, from the ‘Golden Age’ of English.

In 1989, Dr. Northrop Frye wrote the first of DARK SOVEREIGN’s many fine reviews:  ‘I have read Dark Sovereign with interest, and am impressed by the work’s ambition, erudition and intelligence.’  Dr. Frye then added DARK SOVEREIGN to his ‘Special Collection for books valuable to the study of literature’.  The Chair of the Richard III Society, the late Dr. Phil Stone, read the finished text and judged DARK SOVEREIGN ‘accurate.’

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