In the biopic PATTON by Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North, on the life of General George Patton the General delivers a warning: “that all glory is fleeting”.


Cardinal Wosley's soliloquy in the life of King Henry the VIII uses metaphor to describe the fall from power “The third day comes a frost, a killing frost…”


We end the series with Richard II's epic rumination on the death of kings “…Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs…”


FALL

THE DEATH OF POWER

Oliver James Burke

Power Begins


Gluttony of Power

Answer to Tyranny

Response to Rebellion

Death of Power