Richard III would be a nobody without Shakespeare | Letters

Yes, we all know that Shakespeare’s Richard III was a “fiction that more than anything else has blackened this man’s reputation” (Letters, 9 May), but such was Shakespeare’s genius that the pantomime villain he created has surely attracted more interest in this much-maligned monarch than any more obvious panegyric could possibly achieve?As a southerner of Lancastrian antecedents I might never have discovered Richard at all, were it not for my English teacher’s