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Gloucester (later Richard III) from the Shakespeare play:
Shakespeare deliberately made Richard III more ghastly than he is thought to have been - in order to flatter his queen, Elizabeth I, a Tudor monarch - creating the illusion of the "hunchbacked" king whose evil led him to order the murders of the two boy princes in the Tower. Here, Richard soliloquizes about his deformity:
Is this the lost grave of King Richard III? Archaeologists dig under council car park for monarch killed in Battle of Bosworth (Daily Mail)Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York;
And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
MUCH more, huge article with pictures, video, and sidebar, at link above.Archaeologists are hoping to find the lost grave of a medieval monarch in a dig that is due to get underway today.
In what is believed to be the first-ever archaeological search for the lost grave of an anointed King of England, experts from the University of Leicester are set to begin their quest to find the site of a church where it is believed King Richard III was buried in the city [at Greyfriars monastery] more than 500 years ago.
It is thought the site of the church may be on land currently being used as a car park.
King Richard III, the last Plantagenet, ruled England from 1483 until he was defeated at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485.
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The battle ended decades of civil war and was won by the Lancastrians. It paved the way for Henry Tudor to become the first English monarch of the Tudor dynasty.
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Richard Buckley, co-director of the archaeology service at the university, said: 'Although in many ways finding the remains of the king is a long shot, it is a challenge we shall undertake enthusiastically.'
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The key to locating the Battle of Bosworth was a hoard of medieval weapons found in the field where it occured, including the silver white boar badge believed to have been carried by one of Richard's trusted knights.
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Shakespeare deliberately made Richard III more ghastly than he is thought to have been - in order to flatter his queen, Elizabeth I, a Tudor monarch - creating the illusion of the "hunchbacked" king whose evil led him to order the murders of the two boy princes in the Tower. Here, Richard soliloquizes about his deformity:
The play also contains the well-known expressions, "Off with his head," and "A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse."I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion,
Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,
Deformed, unfinish'd, sent before my time
Into this breathing world, scarce half made up,
And that so lamely and unfashionable
That dogs bark at me as I halt by them....