As Shakespeare portrayed him, Richard III was evil incarnate: The murderer of two innocent young princes in the Tower of London, the drowner of his own brother, the usurper of the throne of England, and, by his own cheerful admission, a misshapen
Slain more than 500 years ago on a British battlefield, King Richard III was recently determined to have been unceremoniously buried in nearby Leicester without a coffin. Now that his bones have been identified after being
We went a bit over the top in our coverage, last Saturday, of the finding of the body of King Richard III. A headline said that it “could prove that he really didn't commit the greatest crime in royal history†â€" the murder of the princes in the Tower
In the Feb. 5 editorial “Richard III's twisted legacy,†there are two assumptions made that can be questioned. First, you write, “Richard's reputation as the most reviled monarch in England's history owes much to William Shakespeare.†In fact, his much
The figure that has actually provoked the worldwide press coverage is not the historical Richard III but, rather, the fantastic villain that Shakespeare fashioned from Thomas More's slanders and unleashed in the early
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