Richard III interactive: which elements of the debate each producer of history keeps, invents or omits, era by era

Shakespeare kept more of the record than the monument

Richard III is the same king in Thomas More's chronicle, Shakespeare's play, a 1981 monograph, a cathedral tomb and a 2022 film; what differs is which parts of the record each producer keeps, which it invents and which it leaves out. Choose an era and turn producers on, and watch the same seven elements re-light; then move the focus down the rows to read exactly what each producer did with that element.

Richard III · who keeps what
3 on · 20th century
Choose an era. Turn producers on. Watch which rows stay lit, then move the focus down the rows.
Era
Producers on
3 producers · 11 kept · 5 invented · 5 omitted
Element in focusPrinces 1483

Princes vanish, 1483

    Kept11of 21 cells
    Invented55 omitted
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    Know This

    Set any academic reading beside any popular reading of the same debate and ask what each keeps, invents and omits, not which one is true.