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Tudor & Elizabethan

Richard Niccols

1584–1616

Richard Niccols was an English poet educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford. For the 1610 edition of A Mirror for Magistrates he added ten new tragedies of English kings and princes from Arthur to Richard III, preceded by an Induction, and he rearranged the whole work in chronological order. He also wrote The Cuckow (1607) and The Furies (1614).

The poems here are taken from Part IV of Joseph Haslewood’s 1815 reprint. His long poem England’s Eliza (Part V) is not included here.

Poems (11)

  1. The Induction
  2. The Famous Life and Death of King Arthur
  3. The Life and Death of King Edmund Ironside
  4. The Lamentable Life and Death of Prince Alfred, Brother to King Edmund Ironside
  5. The Treacherous Life and Infamous Death of Godwin, Earl of Kent
  6. The Life and Death of Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy
  7. The Memorable Life and Death of King Richard the First, Surnamed Coeur de Lion
  8. The Unfortunate Life and Death of King John
  9. The Woeful Life and Death of King Edward the Second
  10. The Lamentable Lives and Deaths of the Two Young Princes, Edward the Fifth and His Brother Richard, Duke of York
  11. The Tragical Life and Death of King Richard the Third

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