Richard III - Gamut Theatre in the park
Did Richard of Gloucester have his two preteen nephews killed? His accession to the British throne was based on them being declared illegitimate, and they were never seen in public after they were sent to live at the Tower of London. Their fate remains technically uncertain. The rumor, even then, was that they were murdered. And indeed, I think I read about this in one of my elementary/middle-school history textbooks. I read more at that age -- dozens of Great Illustrated Classics that cut famous works of literature down to size for my easy consumption, a number of books ( Gulliver's Travels , Frankenstein ) I read in their original form, the King James Bible itself. I lived in a sunny world with a constant, vague, background awareness that we were not so many decades or continents removed as we would often like to think from the horror of war or the tyranny of amoral, power-hungry men. In Shakespeare's account of the rise and fall of King Richard III, Richard does have his nep...