Re: MT VOID, 04/26/24 -- Vol. 42, No. 43, Whole Number 2325

On Sun, 28 Apr 2024 21:05:55 -0500, Jay E. Morris wrote:

On 4/28/2024 9:38 AM, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:

The Guys at "Classical Stuff You Should Know"  have gotten to Richard
III in their seemingly endless history of the Plantagenets (sixteen
episodes so far, by my count), and the next episode will presumably
cover Richard's short reign and thus end the series.
So it is time to plug TO PROVE A VILLAIN edited by Taylor Littleton and
Robert R. Rea (MacMillan, ISBN 978-0-023-71360-6). This is, I believe,
the go-to source for those of us who do not have access to the British
Library and various monkish archives. It contains the full texts of
William Shakespeare's RICHARD III and Josephine Tey's THE DAUGHTER OF
TIME, as well as extracts from:
- Shakespeare's "HENRY VI, PART 3)"
- Sir Thomas More's "The History of King Richard the III"
- Polydore Vergil's "English History"
- the Abbey of Croyland's "Chronicle"
- John Dolamn, Francis Seager, and Thomas Churchyard's "A Mirror
   for Magistrates"
- Raphael Holinshed's "Chronicles"
- Sir Francis Bacon's "History of the Reign of the Henry VII"
- Horace Walpole's "Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King
   Richard the Third"
- Charles Dickens's "A Child's History of England"
- Clements R. Markham's "Richard III: A Doubtful Verdict Reviewed" - J.
Dover Wilson's "A Note on Richard III"
- A. R. Meyers's "The Character of Richard III"
 
People who have read THE DAUGHTER OF TIME will find a lot of familiar
arguments in Markham's article (and vice versa).  I suspect it was one
of Tey's main sources.
 
I have written extensive comments about the whole Richard III
controversy in the MT VOID (09/19/16 and 08/04/23), which can be found
at <http://leepers.us/evelyn/reviews/churchill.htm#englishspeaking>
beginning with Winston Churchill's comments, which are not included in
TO PROVE A VILLAIN, quite possibly for copyright reasons.

 
 
Funny. Reading this as I'm watching a movie on Netflix, which just
happens to be _The Lost King_
 
In 2012, after having been lost for over 500 years, the remains of King
Richard III were discovered beneath a car park in Leicester. The search
had been orchestrated by an amateur historian, Philippa Langley, whose
unrelenting research had been met with incomprehension by her friends
and family and with skepticism by experts and academics. THE LOST KING
is the life-affirming true story of a woman who refused to be ignored
and who took on the country's most eminent historians, forcing them to
think again about one of the most controversial kings in England's
history.

But wait, there's more! Sunday's New York Times had an article about
Langley and her forthcoming book questioning whether Richard III
murdered his nephews.