Reply #58: The inevitable comparison to Shakespeare-- [View All]

[mistertrickster]

Mr. Thompson asserted that however that form of entertainment was categorized, it did little teaching about history. “ ‘Richard III’ is one of the greatest plays ever written,” he said, “but it is not very good history.”

Oh, thank you Scholar Thompson . . . what area of English history do you specialize in, the late medieval or the renaissance?

Actually, "Richard III" is true in its essential respects. Richard fought on the side that opposed and overthrew Henry 6. He didn't personally kill his brother Clarence and Henry 6 and his son Edward as the play shows, but he fully supported their death. He DID have his nephews Edward V and Richard killed, which for years the historians denied and are now revising.

To portray a horrible English tyrant as a horrible English tyrant is not dishonest.

"Path to 9-11" is dishonest.