We Speak No Treason

Rosemary Hawley Jarman

Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
4.00 · 6 ratings · 576 pages · Published: 01 Jan 1971
We Speak No Treason by Rosemary Hawley Jarman
Richard of Gloucester, brother of Edward IV and the unfortunate Clarence, is no physical grotesque as Shakespeare or the Tudors would have him. Among the characters in this historical novel who witness a lean Richard in the buff is a gently reared lass attached to the Woodville household; she bears him a daughter and loves him her life long. Her narratives carry the bulk of the tale. But two other intimate portraits are provided by a court fool and a soldier who served Richard as Duke and King. It is the fool who discovers Warwick's distraught daughter Anne who will become Richard's devoted wife; and the soldier is privy to Richard's royal anguish in the last years of personal loss, treason, and his death on the field. Throughout Richard is fair, courageous, loyal and attractive. One may wink at his thunderstruck reception of the "news" of the young Princes' "illegitimacy" which enabled him to take the throne after Edward's death (no word on complicity here). But in this version, the tower murder charge doesn't stick.

This edition of the book shares the same ISBN with "The King's Grey Mare" ISBN #0965005429, both from the same author and issued by the Book of the Month Club in 2000.
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