A great example of historical revisionism is one of William Shakespeare's play of King Richard III performed in 1595. ... The fictional images of Richard being a villain was actually both the combined efforts of Sir Thomas More' s History of Richard III and of Shakespeare's Tragedy of King Richard III. ... Not just only a great king, Richard was actually a great lover. ... Strangely, the prince was murdered in the Tower and Richard is blamed for their death. ... "Bloody thou art, bloody will be thy end/Shame serves thy life and doth thy death attend- (Duchess of York, 4.4. 194-1...

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