In the case of Richard 3 Shakespeare was also resting on nearly a century of
Tudor "history."  By the time Henry VII died he had, quite successfully,
killed almost everyone with the faintest taint of "royal" ancestry. Tudor
intellectuals had a lot of work o do to tidy up affairs.

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> I've spent much of my time for months reading Roman history and the wars
> or Rome and Carthage. I is extremely revealing about Eliot, interestingly
> enough. But I also realize how much we have simply seen many historic
> figures through the eyes of Shakespeare--who was not writing but using
> history. He knew a lot of it, but he used it for dramatic purposes. One
> example is Mark Antony: he was not so great a figure as his great speech
in
> the play makes him.
> Nancy
> 
> >>> Carrol Cox <[log in to unmask]> 02/07/13 1:14 PM >>>
> There is no way Truth can triumph over Shakespeare (re Richard III). :-)
> 
> Carrol