Succession to the British throne branch of the royal house of Lancaster, the House of Beaufort, assumed the English crown as Henry VII, after defeating Richard III, who was killed at the battle of Bosworth when leading a charge against Henry's standard. Richard was the last king of the House of York, and the last of the Plantagenet dynasty. Henry declared himself king retroactively from 21 August 1485, the day before his victory over Richard at Bosworth Field, and caused Richard's "Titulus Regius" to be repealed and expunged from the Rolls of Parliament. After Henry's coronation in London in October that year, his first parliament,
Who Shall Die mother of post-war philosophy for feminism mostly for, "The Second Sex." During post World War II, Beauvoir often felt like an outsider in a male dominated world, and would use her writing as a vehicle to showcase her philosophy. In, "Who Shall Die", Beauvoir uses a story about political power being taken advantage of, and a somewhat historically accurate setting to divulge into her existentialist philosophy and touch upon questions surrounding feminism. Who Shall Die Who Shall Die is a 1945 existentialist play written by Simone de Beauvoir. The play takes place in 14th Century Vaucelles, a city in Flanders.