Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Charles Packer Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom Subject: Re: MT VOID, 04/26/24 -- Vol. 42, No. 43, Whole Number 2325 Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2024 07:19:29 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 56 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2024 09:19:30 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="4223360686c18f0146a8c225ce55623d"; logging-data="1699840"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18iDSkKFqIrreUSN3DRg4PX" User-Agent: Pan/0.141 (Tarzan's Death; 168b179 git.gnome.org/pan2) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ljhv99VgwTHXJWvqDF4OlA2rUU4= Bytes: 3963 On Sun, 28 Apr 2024 21:05:55 -0500, Jay E. Morris wrote: > On 4/28/2024 9:38 AM, Evelyn C. Leeper wrote: >> The Guys at "Classical Stuff You Should Know"  have gotten to Richard >> III in their seemingly endless history of the Plantagenets (sixteen >> episodes so far, by my count), and the next episode will presumably >> cover Richard's short reign and thus end the series. >> So it is time to plug TO PROVE A VILLAIN edited by Taylor Littleton and >> Robert R. Rea (MacMillan, ISBN 978-0-023-71360-6). This is, I believe, >> the go-to source for those of us who do not have access to the British >> Library and various monkish archives. It contains the full texts of >> William Shakespeare's RICHARD III and Josephine Tey's THE DAUGHTER OF >> TIME, as well as extracts from: >> - Shakespeare's "HENRY VI, PART 3)" >> - Sir Thomas More's "The History of King Richard the III" >> - Polydore Vergil's "English History" >> - the Abbey of Croyland's "Chronicle" >> - John Dolamn, Francis Seager, and Thomas Churchyard's "A Mirror >>   for Magistrates" >> - Raphael Holinshed's "Chronicles" >> - Sir Francis Bacon's "History of the Reign of the Henry VII" >> - Horace Walpole's "Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King >>   Richard the Third" >> - Charles Dickens's "A Child's History of England" >> - Clements R. Markham's "Richard III: A Doubtful Verdict Reviewed" - J. >> Dover Wilson's "A Note on Richard III" >> - A. R. Meyers's "The Character of Richard III" >> >> People who have read THE DAUGHTER OF TIME will find a lot of familiar >> arguments in Markham's article (and vice versa).  I suspect it was one >> of Tey's main sources. >> >> I have written extensive comments about the whole Richard III >> controversy in the MT VOID (09/19/16 and 08/04/23), which can be found >> at >> beginning with Winston Churchill's comments, which are not included in >> TO PROVE A VILLAIN, quite possibly for copyright reasons. > > > Funny. Reading this as I'm watching a movie on Netflix, which just > happens to be _The Lost King_ > > In 2012, after having been lost for over 500 years, the remains of King > Richard III were discovered beneath a car park in Leicester. The search > had been orchestrated by an amateur historian, Philippa Langley, whose > unrelenting research had been met with incomprehension by her friends > and family and with skepticism by experts and academics. THE LOST KING > is the life-affirming true story of a woman who refused to be ignored > and who took on the country's most eminent historians, forcing them to > think again about one of the most controversial kings in England's > history. But wait, there's more! Sunday's New York Times had an article about Langley and her forthcoming book questioning whether Richard III murdered his nephews.