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Author Kendall's big book, which has been hailed excitedly in Britain, differs from its predecessors by virtue of the raw material on which it is based. Kendall argues that after Henry Tudor destroyed Richard at the Battle of Bosworth. he was careful, as Henry VII, to take away Richard's reputation as well as his crown. Tudor historians (whom Shakespeare followed) spent the next hundred years or so blackening the defeated monarch in order to whitewash their own regime. So, Kendall argues, all Tudor evidence is suspect; only the evidence of Richard's contemporaries should...
...wear these glories for a day?" He sends two little princes, his nephews, to a strangling bed, and sheds Buckingham as coldly as last season's skin ("None are for me/That look into me with considerate eye"). The rebellions begin, and Richard is slain at last on Bosworth Field...
...wonder that a lot of people were surprised recently to read in the "In Memoriam" columns of the august London Times this notice: "At Battle Bosworth August 22, 1485, there fell, fighting bravely, Richard III of England. King. Statesman. Soldier. Gentleman. Deeply mourned. 'From distant shores, pale dusty ghost. One grain of sand salutes your memory...
...comes from Sir Thomas More's History of Richard III. Most people have long assumed that Sir Thomas (who was canonized by Pope Pius XI in 1935) was an on-the-spot reporter, but historians know that More was only seven years old when Richard was killed at Bosworth and that he took his information from one John Morton, who became Archbishop of Canterbury under King Henry...
Shocking Affair. Henry, the first Tudor, who himself usurped the throne by force of arms at the Battle of Bosworth, had every reason to blacken the memory of Richard in order to make his own crown more secure. It was at Henry's direction, says the Richardists, that Morton...