Chuck
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Yeah, the earliest, like, historical records we really have on Richard III are from that Tudor period. They are not flattering at all. One guy named John Rouse, he was a guy, and this is kind of pretty decent evidence that it was a smear campaign. He was... a historian who wrote about him before and after his death. While he was alive, he was saying, great leader. He helped the rich and the poor.
I'm up with King Richard. After Henry VII and the Tudors take over, he's like, no, actually, he was a monster and like maybe a literal monster because he was born At two years old, he spent two years in the womb. He came out with a full set of teeth. He had hair down to his shoulders. He was excessively cruel. He's basically the Antichrist, and he actually used that word.
I'm up with King Richard. After Henry VII and the Tudors take over, he's like, no, actually, he was a monster and like maybe a literal monster because he was born At two years old, he spent two years in the womb. He came out with a full set of teeth. He had hair down to his shoulders. He was excessively cruel. He's basically the Antichrist, and he actually used that word.
I'm up with King Richard. After Henry VII and the Tudors take over, he's like, no, actually, he was a monster and like maybe a literal monster because he was born At two years old, he spent two years in the womb. He came out with a full set of teeth. He had hair down to his shoulders. He was excessively cruel. He's basically the Antichrist, and he actually used that word.
Then a guy named Sir Thomas More picked up where Rouse left off. He was alive when Richard died. He was only eight years old, though, but he was a close advisor to Henry VII, that Tudor king. And he wrote that Richard was a malicious, wrathful, envious person from before his death, ever perverse.
Then a guy named Sir Thomas More picked up where Rouse left off. He was alive when Richard died. He was only eight years old, though, but he was a close advisor to Henry VII, that Tudor king. And he wrote that Richard was a malicious, wrathful, envious person from before his death, ever perverse.
Then a guy named Sir Thomas More picked up where Rouse left off. He was alive when Richard died. He was only eight years old, though, but he was a close advisor to Henry VII, that Tudor king. And he wrote that Richard was a malicious, wrathful, envious person from before his death, ever perverse.
And this is where you get the idea of him being deformed or something, what we would now call a body-physical difference. He was little of stature, ill-featured of limbs, crooked-backed, his left shoulder much higher than his right, hard-favored in appearance.
And this is where you get the idea of him being deformed or something, what we would now call a body-physical difference. He was little of stature, ill-featured of limbs, crooked-backed, his left shoulder much higher than his right, hard-favored in appearance.
And this is where you get the idea of him being deformed or something, what we would now call a body-physical difference. He was little of stature, ill-featured of limbs, crooked-backed, his left shoulder much higher than his right, hard-favored in appearance.
I agree, because otherwise they'd be like, hey, we're good. Everyone hated that guy. Exactly. I was just thinking how awful it would have been. I mean, up until recently, really. But back then, if you had some sort of physical difference, you were just born a certain way for people to think like, that means they're like an evil, awful person on the inside as well.
I agree, because otherwise they'd be like, hey, we're good. Everyone hated that guy. Exactly. I was just thinking how awful it would have been. I mean, up until recently, really. But back then, if you had some sort of physical difference, you were just born a certain way for people to think like, that means they're like an evil, awful person on the inside as well.
I agree, because otherwise they'd be like, hey, we're good. Everyone hated that guy. Exactly. I was just thinking how awful it would have been. I mean, up until recently, really. But back then, if you had some sort of physical difference, you were just born a certain way for people to think like, that means they're like an evil, awful person on the inside as well.
I did want to mention quickly, I saw The Goodbye Girl the other day, the Richard Dreyfuss movie, the Neil Simon movie. Okay, whose movie was it? Well, Richard Dreyfuss starred and Neil Simon wrote it. Okay. Marsha Mason was in it too. It's just a classic film.
I did want to mention quickly, I saw The Goodbye Girl the other day, the Richard Dreyfuss movie, the Neil Simon movie. Okay, whose movie was it? Well, Richard Dreyfuss starred and Neil Simon wrote it. Okay. Marsha Mason was in it too. It's just a classic film.
I did want to mention quickly, I saw The Goodbye Girl the other day, the Richard Dreyfuss movie, the Neil Simon movie. Okay, whose movie was it? Well, Richard Dreyfuss starred and Neil Simon wrote it. Okay. Marsha Mason was in it too. It's just a classic film.
But Richard Dreyfuss very famously is in New York to play Richard III and is trying to do this very, very strange – or he's sort of forced into doing this very strange portrayal of Richard III after he was ready to play it straight as an already weird Richard III.