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?
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Richard III
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
Discussed“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. It wasn't Richard III. was a very big book uh bestseller in fact”
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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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