Episode · Stuff You Should Know · 2025-04-22
Books mentioned on Richard III: Good Guy or Evil Putz?
Ever since Shakespeare wrote his tragedy on Richard III the world has thought of him as an evil king with a shriveled soul. But is that actually unjust?
Josh Clark discussed Richard III by William Shakespeare, The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey, and Richard III. Chuck Bryant discussed Richard III by Paul Murray Kendall.
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Richard III
Richard III by William Shakespeare is a famous history play that dramatizes the turbulent rise to power and subsequent brief, brutal reign of King Richard III of England.
Discussed“Um, so Richard III is the you may his name may ring a bell if you're not already familiar with him because there's a very very famous play by Shakespeare called the tragedy of Richard III.”
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The Daughter of Time
The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey is a popular 1950s detective novel that reimagines the disappearance of the two princes as a modern Scotland Yard murder mystery, offering an alternative historical theory that challenges the traditional view of Richard III.
Discussed“Uh so that went mainstream in the 1950s because of a book. Uh it was a very popular detective novel called A Daughter of Time in which they reimagine the disappearance of the two princes as a modern murder mystery where Scotland Yard gets involved and Scott Lanyard says Henry VIIIth was the guy who murdered these two boys.”
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Richard III
Discussed“uh when a a really well-balanced biography came out in the 1950s from Paul Murray Kindle called Richard III uh a woman named Philippa Langley read it and got very interested”
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Richard III
Discussed“uh when a a really well-balanced biography came out in the 1950s from Paul Murray Kindle uh called Richard III uh a woman named Philippa Langley read it and got very interested uh she's a historian and a screenwriter obviously a Ricardian and she was like I want to figure out what happened to this body that's still the mystery”
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