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

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.