The controversy surrounding Richard III still exists five hundred years after the end of his reign. The Richard of the just ruler, a good husband, and a brave soldier is lost in politics. “The deform

“As king, Richard brings many beneficial changes to England” (Spinak). Historically proven, he was a king who really cared for the education of his country. Richard III prohibited taxing the importation of books and commanded that laws be written in English so everyone could understand. He initiated a relay postal system. Gave money to poor students, and started the bailing system. As for any king would indeed, Richard trampled over personal tragedy. But overall, he was not an evil ruler. The fictional images of Richard being a villain was actually both the combined efforts of Sir Thomas More’ s History of Richard III and of Shakespeare’s Tragedy of King Richard III. The portrayal of his characteristics was heighthen and rewritten so that Henry Tudor would become the savor of England from disorder since his reign was weak. “Uncertain way of gain! But I am in so far in blood that sin will pluck on sin” (Richard, 4.2.64-65). Thanks mainly to Shakespeare, Richards is known in the popular imagination of being a wicked protagonist.

In Richard III, the wicked protagonist conspires against kin, plots political takeovers, woos widows, and sets assassins against children. All these acts were all false statement towards Richard III where history was often used and studied to teach moral lessons. But to make a stronger moral statement, bits of fiction were often sprinkled into the descriptions of actual events. In this case, a lot of fictional details were invented from stories written by Richards’s enemies. Eventually, the true villain would have been Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond who wanted to strengt

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