This Richard in Art quiz is all about culture.
Richard III has come down through history as such an important character mostly because of his effect he has had on our culture. He is notoriously depicted as a villainous king in the Shakespeare play which shares his name. But there are other portrayals to be found of Richard than the one written by Shakespeare. This quiz is about some of the other appearances Richard makes in the arts.
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The play, Richardus Tertius was performed at Cambridge University that year and is thought to be the first history play written in England
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Although the play is anonymous there has been speculation about the probable author with Christopher Marlowe as one of the candidates
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Shakespeare has Richard say:
Why, love forswore me in my mother's womb: And, for I should not deal in her soft laws, She did corrupt frail nature with some bribe, To shrink mine arm up like a wither'd shrub; To make an envious mountain on my back, Where sits deformity to mock my body; To shape my legs of an unequal size In actual fact Richard had only one deformity: a curved spine which would have made his shoulders slightly crooked |
The painting, which belongs to the National Gallery, is a late 16th century copy of an early 16th century picture. There are no surviving portraits of Richard made during his life
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The poem tells how the boy grew up not knowing who his father was. He meets the king before the Battle of Bosworth, but following his father's defeat, he lives the rest of his life as a commoner
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She was imprisoned by Richard for taking part in a conspiracy against him, but he released her shortly afterwards so that she could marry
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The story is set in the time before Richard became king and was still the Duke of Gloucester. In it he is referred to as "Richard Crookback"
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The statue was commissioned by the Richard III Society and placed close to where Richard's body was later discovered
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In the novel the Spanish do not send Columbus on his expedition because they are at war with Grenada. Instead the English expedition of 1497 led by John Cabot is the first to land in the Americas and consequently they are named "Cabot land"
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The show had Richard III singing, "Never had a hump and my arm was alright, never took the crown with illegal power. Never killed my nephews, the princes in the tower ... time to tell the truth about King Richard the third"
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