Discussing: The Ghost of Richard III by Christopher Brooke with Dr Jitka Štollová.

In 1614, Christopher Brooke produced his Ghost poem on the life of Richard III. To celebrate (wantonly plug) our live streamed stage adaptation, Robert Crighton discusses the poem and a whole world of other texts on Richard III.

Dr Jitka Štollová is a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College.

At time of release - the live stream will be occurring on Tuesday 21st July at 19.00 BST - links for the stream will be on the Quay Theatre online website - https://online.quaysudbury.com/

Read the poem - https://archive.org/details/ghostrichardthi00collgoog/page/n19/mode/2up

And to watch our exploration of The True Tragedy of Richard III, it's on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLflmEwgdfKoLqof8eUWJU5EEJXr93e56y

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