[mewzilla]

And Shakespeare probably penned Richard III , where most folks get any knowledge they have of Dickie, in an effort to suck up to his patron, Elizabeth.

[The Deplorable Miss Lemon]

Most of, if not all of, Shakespeare’s writing about the last Plantagenet was fiction.

Richard’s contemporaries wrote that he was a fierce warrior how could a man with a withered arm and a hump on his back be a “warrior?” So yes Shakespeare wrote to suck up to the granddaughter of the man who toppled Richard from his throne.