We have need of history in its entirety,
not to fall back into it, but to see if we can
History itself is not always believable. There are many gaps in facts relating to
Different events that occur throughout time. One of the best examples that we can find
comes from Shakespeare's Richard III. Using facts gotten from Sir Thomas Moore's
account of Richards life, Shakespeare, portrays Richard III as a hunchbacked, shriveled
arm, slimy villain who will stop at nothing to kill whoever is in his way to the throne. Yet
many sources in history indicate that this view of Richard is not true, Richard III was an
innocent man who suffered much throughout his life, and even more after his
death. Shakespeare begins his play about Richard with a description of his physical
I that am curtailed of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinished, 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
To be disfigured in Shakespeare's day indicated a warped soul. In truth, Richard was not
hunchback at all, how else would he have been able to fight so valiantly in all the battles?
Costain, a historian, says that Richard was dark and plain compared to his siblings. One
of his shoulders was slightly lower than the other. It is said that during Richard's infancy,
he suffered from polio and didn't start to gain strength back until around the age of eight.
One would think that the way Shakespeare portrays Richard as an ugly, there
would be sibling rivalry between him and his older more beautiful siblings, especially
when Shakespeare says that Richard plotted against his brothers to have them killed. Yet
history tells us that Richard loved his siblings greatly. He would do anything to help his
oldest brother, Edward IV. It is said that they were so clos...