Иоанн Безземельный, Эдуард Третий и Ричард Второй глазами Шекспира

Istorii trekh znamenitykh koroleĭ pod odnoĭ oblozhkoĭ. Kazhdyĭ iz nikh po-svoemu doshel do krai͡a… a koe-kto i perestupil ego. IOANN (1167-1216) po prozvishchu Bezzemelʹnyĭ. Byl neudachnikom, kotorogo nikto ne li͡ubil, osobenno posle pravlenii͡a ego blagorodnogo brata Richarda Lʹvinoe Serdt͡se. Vchistui͡u proigral dve bolʹshie voĭny: s frant͡suzami - lishilsi͡a poloviny svoikh vladeniĭ; s sobstvennymi poddannymi - poteri͡al pochti polovinu svoeĭ korolevskoĭ vlasti. Tot samyĭ korolʹ, kotoryĭ podpisal proobraz sovremennykh konstitut͡siĭ - Velikui͡u khartii͡u volʹnosteĭ. ĖDUARD (1312-1377), geroĭ i vezunchik, po prozvishchu Tretiĭ. Nachal Stoletni͡ui͡u voĭnu s Frant͡sieĭ, v neskolʹkikh slavnykh srazhenʹi͡akh perebil t͡svet frant͡suzskoĭ znati, a ego pravlenie nazvali "zolotym vekom" angliĭskoĭ istorii. RIChARD (1367-1400) mog by, naverno, poluchitʹ prozvishche Print͡s Datskiĭ, esli by Gamlet byl napisan na dvesti let ranʹshe. Rano poteri͡al ott͡sa, sperva byl zavisim ot materi i starykh sovetnikov, a potom ponadei͡alsi͡a na druzeĭ-sverstnikov, kotorye ego predali, svergli i zamorili v ti͡urʹme. Govori͡at, byl impulʹsivnym i razdrazhitelʹnym krasavchikom, no ne takim nevrastenikom, kakim narisoval ego genialʹnyĭ dramaturg. Vsled za Shekspirom Aleksandra Marinina postaralasʹ razobratʹsi͡a v zhizneopisanii͡akh i psikhologicheskikh portretakh ėtikh praviteleĭ. I kakimi slovami ona zakanchivaet svoi͡u knigu? "Poistine t͡sarstvennoe lit͡semerie!" Pochemu? Ob ėtom mozhno uznatʹ iz uvlekatelʹnykh i ostroumnykh istoricheskikh ocherkov.

The stories of three famous kings under one cover. Each of them has reached the edge in his own way... and some have crossed it. JOHN (1167-1216), nicknamed the Landless. He was a loser who no one liked, especially after the reign of his noble brother Richard the Lionheart. He lost two major wars outright: with the French, he lost half of his possessions; with his own subjects, he lost almost half of his royal power. The same king who signed the prototype of modern constitutions, the Magna Carta. EDWARD (1312-1377), a hero and a lucky man, nicknamed the Third. He began the Hundred Years' War with France, killed the flower of the French nobility in several glorious battles, and his reign was called the "golden age" of English history. RICHARD (1367-1400) could probably have earned the nickname Prince of Denmark if Hamlet had been written two hundred years earlier. He lost his father early, at first he was dependent on his mother and old advisers, and then he relied on friends of his peers who betrayed him, overthrew him and starved him to death in prison. They say he was an impulsive and irritable handsome man, but not as neurotic as the brilliant playwright painted him. Following Shakespeare, Alexandra Marinina tried to understand the biographies and psychological portraits of these rulers. And with what words does she end her book? "Truly a royal hypocrisy!" Why? You can learn about this from fascinating and witty historical essays.