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William Shakespeare’s play ‘Richard III’ illustrates how a power-hungry monarch can attain the throne at the expense of civil society.
Stephen Frears’ film is adding to the furore surrounding Richard III, England’s most controversial king. New research examines what prompts such ferocious debate.
Rumours and gossip dominated his short reign and the stories were more than just about the Princes in the Tower.
Account of the murders written by Thomas More was based more in fact than fiction.
The Bard’s plays have an unfair reputation for being hard. You’re probably reading them in the wrong way.
All of Shakespeare’s major male roles were written for Richard Burbage who died in the 1619s.
Car parks seem to be intersecting with English history quite a bit lately.
Mulvany’s performance reminds us that Shakespeare still has the power to reveal the true monsters of our culture.
Benedict Cumberbatch is related to him – as are many others. But very few helped us identify the car park king.
By an accident of history, Richard III met his death on a battlefield near Leicester. Now, this has transformed the city.
Shakespeare has largely shaped our understanding of the king – and all the while the real Richard lay entombed in a carpark.
The discovery of Richard III’s skeletal remains under a car park in Leicester revealed the final resting place of the last English monarch to die in battle. We know that he was killed at the Battle of…
Genomes from the 500-year-old remains of King Richard III and a direct living descendant are to be sequenced by scientists, which could reveal more about the life of the last king to be killed in battle…
Richard III’s skeleton, dug up from a carpark in Leicester in 2012, is currently the subject of a legal dispute about where he should be buried. In one corner is the University of Leicester, whose archaeologists…
“It will be a whole new era for Richard III,” Lynda Pidgeon, spokeswoman for the Richard III Society, said of the discovery that the skeleton found under a car-park in Leicester is almost certainly that…
In the past few days news has come to light of the confirmation that skeletal remains discovered in an excavated site of a Leicester car park are indeed that of the famous English king Richard III. But…
The story is almost unbelievable: a king buried for five centuries under what is now a car park, identified through mtDNA analysis with the last surviving matrilineal descendants of his sister. But it…
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