![]() ![]() ![]() Whatever Shakespeare’s play may say, Richard was not born with teeth, and he did not have an especially crooked back. Given how charismatically awful Shakespeare made his deformed anti-hero, it is sad to have to admit how comparatively nice the real Richard III really was. ![]() Which should we remember when those bones from the car-park in Leicester are reburied? The real king of history, or the marvellous theatrical villain of Shakespeare’s play? Killed in the Midlands in 1485, and now dug up in the Midlands in 2013, and in the meantime posthumously defamed by the Midlands’ greatest writer, William Shakespeare. Poor Richard III how little reason that son of York had to like this area of his kingdom. ![]()
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