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Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator
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King Richard III has been wrongly accused of a crime that has never been categorically authenticated to conclusively prove his guilt.
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Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk
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No one is stating that King Richard III did not live in turbulent times but to single him out based on the writings of two men whose writings are so unreliable has been the greatest injustice inflicted on any human being.
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Pete Trengle,
Bass Player
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Instead, he went home to Canada and starred in a new production of Shakespeare's Richard III , followed by a stint as Cyrano de Bergerac and a concert of his favourite songs.
The town was a cultural center; at the three theaters in Columbia, Edwin Booth performed Shakespeare's Richard III and Lola Montez performed her notorious spider dance.
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Keith Tennant,
Factory Worker
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Die Tudors Henry Tudor setzte sich auf dem Schlachtfeld von Bosworth 1485 die Krone des gefallenen Richard III aufs Haupt.
King Richard III, the reigning monarch from 1483-1485, has through the writings of Sir Thomas More and William Shakespeare been vilified for over 515 years.
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Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent
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It was their son, Henry Tudor, who, supported by the Welsh, defeated Richard III at Bosworth Field to become Henry VII - the first of the Tudors - thus giving Wales a sense of victory over England.
Richard III fought against the first of the Tudor monarchs and was therefore labeled in the Tudor histories as a vicious usurper, and he duly appears in Shakespeare's plays as a murdering monster.
Ultimately, Henry of Lancaster defeated Richard III of York at the Battle of Bosworth Field to become Henry VII and found the House of Tudor.
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Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran
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Richard III has functioned as both hero and villain to many generations of historians and has captured the popular imagination since before the time of Shakespeare.
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Khalid Binalshibh,
Taxi Driver
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In "Richard III" Shakespeare created a villain of such grotesque evil and maliciousness that his own mother calls him "thou toad, thou toad.
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Dan Toomey,
Computer Salesman
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With several new version of Shakespeare's Richard III available on video, and a large number of primary sources available on this web site, Richard III is an attractive topic for a multimedia approach to literature and history.
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