[Oztrich Boy]

Interesting theory, but as far as I know Henry VII was dead more than 50 years before Shakespeare was born. Now, it’s true, Shakespeare might have been including things that would make Queen Elizabeth and King James I happy. To openly make them unhappy may not have been a good idea. But, check it out, there are a lot of people who think that he was being subversive, if not openly so.

Sunstitute Sir Thomas More (who wrote the book Shakspear adapted for the stage) for Shakspear.

IN the opening sentence of More's Richard III, he gives precise age of death for Edward IV (a near-contempory and hardly obscure individual) which is totally wrong - the opening sentence! (trust nothing herein).

[miss marmelstein]

Oh, come on! You don’t believe that Richard the Third was in his mother’s womb for two years and when finally born had a full set of teeth and hair to his shoulders?? Oh, you Doubting Thomas, you!