King Richard III of England is remembered as one of history’s most villainous royals: a cruel, calculating hunchback who did whatever it took to secure power for himself. But there’s a lot more to ...
LONDON — Britain’s King Richard III was immortalized with the Shakespeare line, “A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse.” Now state-of-the-art technology has revealed what it may have sounded like ...
Richard was deposed and killed in a battle near Leicester in 1485 and quickly buried without a coffin in a now-demolished church in the city. A skeleton found under a Leicester pa ...
A production at the Shakespeare’s Globe theater faced criticism because a nondisabled actor plays the scheming king. But disputes like these miss the point, our critic writes. By Houman Barekat ...
Yvonne Morley-Chisholm was on an annual retreat in England in 2014 when she had something of a eureka moment. "We were meeting in the city of Leicester, and I thought, 'Leicester, Leicester — oh, didn ...
Written around 1592, William Shakespeare’s play “Richard III” follows the reign of England’s infamous monarch and charts the path of a charismatic, cunning figure. As a scholar of Shakespeare, I first ...
Read full article: Producers pay damages to settle libel suit over movie about search for King Richard III The producers of "The Lost King" have agreed to pay damages to an academic who sued for libel ...