A production at the Shakespeare’s Globe theater faced criticism because a nondisabled actor plays the scheming king. But disputes like these miss the point, our critic writes. By Houman Barekat ...

LONDON (Reuters) - With a large chin, a prominent slightly arched nose and delicate lips, the "face" of England's King Richard III was unveiled on Tuesday, a day after researchers confirmed his ...

A permanent exhibition showing a state-of-the-art avatar of King Richard III has opened in Leicester. The display, which ...

LONDON — Britain’s King Richard III was immortalized with the Shakespeare line, “A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse.” Now state-of-the-art technology has revealed what it may have sounded like ...

LONDON (AP) — It was a true story stranger than fiction: The body of England’s King Richard III, missing for centuries, was discovered under a parking lot after a search spearheaded by amateur sleuths ...

Yvonne Morley-Chisholm was on an annual retreat in England in 2014 when she had something of a eureka moment. "We were meeting in the city of Leicester, and I thought, 'Leicester, Leicester — oh, didn ...

Richard III is one of those historical figures that everybody seems to know the name of. Thanks in large part to his ...

David Sterling Brown receives funding from the Mellon Foundation and American Council of Learned Societies. Written around 1592, William Shakespeare’s play “Richard III” follows the reign of England’s ...

Although several others are ahead of him in the line of succession, Richard of Gloucester is determined to gain the throne. Through deceit, manipulation, and murder, he does become King Richard III of ...

This week, Britain finally buries — or rather reburies — the Dark Ages. Sign up here. On Thursday, King Richard III — England’s last medieval monarch — will be interred in Leicester Cathedral, almost ...

Britain’s King Richard III was immortalized with the Shakespeare line, “A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse.” Now state-of-the-art technology has revealed what it may have sounded like if he did ...