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Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third

Author
Horace Walpole
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
3 hours 34 minutes
ISBN
9781802568448
Published
29 August 2025
Imprint
Urban Romantics
  • Richard III
  • King Richard
  • gothic
  • gothic novel
  • prophecy
  • relationship
  • family
  • marriage
  • British novel

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Horace Walpole reopens the case against Richard III, the king Tudor writers and Shakespeare cast as monster and murderer. He weighs the sources on the Princes in the Tower, the charge of tyranny, and the tales of deformity, and finds bias where others found certainty. Not a full clearing of the king’s name, but a landmark of revisionist history: Enlightenment doubt spoken as inquiry, useful whenever you want to hear how propaganda hardens into received fact.

Author

Horace Walpole (1717–1797), son of Sir Robert Walpole, went to Eton and King's College, Cambridge, and built Strawberry Hill as a Gothic toy that became a style. The Castle of Otranto put a giant helmet on English fiction and invented a taste: vaults, lineage, a past that will not stay buried. Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third shows the same restless elegance on history. Wit, in a haunted corridor.

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