Good King Richard?: An Account of Richard III and His Reputation (Biography & Memoirs)
A minute study of the facts of Richard's life has tended more and more to convince me of the general fidelity of the portrait with which we have been made familiar by Shakespeare and Sir Thomas More. JAMES GAIRDNER Preface to History of the Life and Reign of Richard the Third (1878) What is astounding about this statement is not so much that Gairdner supposes the sensational protagonist of the melodramatic Richard III to be a portrait of the real Richard but that he supposes it to be, in any way, the portrait of a human being. PAUL MURRAY KENDALL Richard III (1955)