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It may not be winter but there’s plenty of discontent: Michelle Terry’s female-led Richard III sparked uproar when the Globe announced that she, able bodied, would take on the eponymous disabled ...

What does it mean to see the "rudely stamped... deformed, unfinished" body of Richard III on stage? Even Shakespeare's contemporaries didn't quite know how to answer this question. The prevailing view ...

Richard III was the last king of England to die in battle. But as a new forensic analysis of his remains shows, he didn’t just die in battle — he had the living tar beat out of him. Here’s how this ...

Richard III, whose skeleton was discovered only last year buried under a parking lot, really was twisted, a new analysis shows. Researchers could tell from the skeletal remains that that king vilified ...

In Shakespeare in the Park‘s new production of “Richard III,” Danai Gurira plays the title role less as a politician than as a performer. Gurira’s Richard is a mastermind of chaos at the court, who ...

Interesting fact. The American version of the documentary produced for Channel 4 is actually the “director’s cut” and a whole ten minutes longer, despite having nearly 100 hours of footage on the ...

A forensic analysis on King Richard III’s skeletal remains has allowed scientists to construct a play-by-play of the English ruler’s final moments before he died in 1485 at the Battle of Bosworth ...

The personal prayer book of King Richard III — in which the English king likely scrawled a reminder of his birthday in his own hand — is now available to peruse online. Leicester Cathedral digitized ...

Turi King lead the DNA analysis in the Richard III case. So, Benedict Cumberbatch, national treasure, is related to Richard III. His upcoming role as the infamous king in the next instalment of The ...

The discovery of the remains of Richard III beneath a car parking lot in the English city of Leicester in 2012 sparked excitement around the world. Now those bones are to be reburied following a ...