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COMPARISON OF SHAKESPEARE'S RICHARD III AND TEY'S ***** III

***** paper explores the differences between Shakespeare's account of Richard III and Josephine Tey's Account ***** the same. The paper reasons out ***** causes of *****.

***** OF SHAKESPEARE'S RICHARD ***** AND TEY'S RICHARD III

Shakespeare's descriptions ***** Richard ***** have been the most popular historical account.

He describes Richard to be a physic*****lly deformed individual with his deformities eating away at his mind and soul turning him into a loathsome character. Moreover, he depicts Richard to be greedy for throne so much so that he went about on a murdering spree. In Shakespeare's *****, Richard killed ***** own brother George whose turn it was in the line of successi***** *****in ***** House ***** York. *****, he had t***** queen's brothers, Rivers and Gray and his wife Anne murdered too with the aid of the conspiratorial Buckingham. But, as depicted by Shakespeare, his most infamous and popular and much touted crime w***** the order to murder the rightful heirs to the throne, ***** brother Edward's two young sons.

In striking contrast to the Shakespearean account, stands ***** Tey's mystery masterwork, '***** Daughter of Time.' The main character of this detective work, Inspector Grant, a modern day detective, perpetrates the mythology around Richard III and deciphers the mystery of the murders of ***** princes. The account also reveals some very disturbing differences; Richard had no profound physical *****. He was a kind, generous and loyal man ***** a wise ********** merciful ruler so ***** so ***** his d*****fall is ascribed to his leniency. Moreover the account discredits Richard's position as a murderer of ***** nephews as it emphatically states that there is no credibility to the evidence of Richard being a *****.

Shakespeare's portrayal of Richard III should not come as a surprise to an ordinary reader because he ***** more of an artist and a writer than a his*****rian. Shakespearean plays ***** certain *****istics that are common to all. Shakespeare uses his own ideals to convey his innermost thoughts. For example, in ***** ***** his plays he seems ***** be against ***** morality and displays. T*****, in turn, is represented ***** some twist ***** physical appearance, such as 'Richard III's hunchback, Edmund's illegitimacy, or Macbeth's dwarfish appearance' (Moore, 1995). In the same *****ner, his characters have got to go through ***** typical route of struggle, rise, triumph and fall. All of ***** is found in h***** ***** ***** Richard, the third. It is quite natural to believe that this play was no exception. Hence it had all his trapp*****gs and l*****tle relevance to history.

***** and again, writers and general public alike have questioned the historical accuracy of ***** Shakespearean account of *****. In 1986, Mary Miller cited a ***** book by the name of Tower ***** London as historically inaccurate. To such a citation, she received an inquiry *****king her what she thought of ***** ***** of Shakespeare's ***** on Richard III. This *****es to show that the general readers