Was Richard III the monster Shakespeare portrayed? Here's the other Richard III--the real one, possibly --in a new Shakespearean five-act tragedy, written in old Elizabethan blank verse.
We see, for all its grimness, the charm of life in late medieval times, meet many affecting characters-a very human Richard, disarming Lady Anne, pleasure-seeking Edward IV and his ambitious queen, Elizabeth Wydville, covetous Lord Clarence, dashing Earl Rivers, steadfast Lord Hastings, cl.