The New Murrey and Blue blog

I think Matthew Lewis is a capable and competent writer, my above comment is directed at David Horspool’s over-priced exercise of sheer rhetorical hyperbole! Even at his worst, how can Horspool rate RIII lower than big bad KYNGE JOHN due to the long duration of his brutally ruthless churlish incompetency that led to the signing of Magna Carta? If one of the two bold late 1400s “pretenders” was actually a bona fide member of the Plantagenet family tree by way of a line of descent from EIII methinks this has both Henry 7th and RIII looking less guilty of an act of blatant regicide. Can we say blame game? By comparison, poor “Doubting Thomas” Michael Hicks even neatly has a wealth of new material in his books when he is not being opinionated, myself I’d recommend Hicks over Horspool, and even Clements Markham despite his age and lack of new developments over Horspool. Horspool evidently took Shakesphere literally rather than poetically, and now charges ten to twenty times what one would pay in a second hand bookstore for a nice edition of the Bard’s infamous/famous play! My comment above is directed at Horspool’s sorry tabloid excuse of a book! Matthew Lewis has written excellent biographies of King John and Edward I, both of whom were hell to cross, but in different ways. Ricardians with good reason pick up on Richard’s nicer disposition, his much more democratic conceptualization of the monarchy and also the compassionate “inner compass” of his highly moral ethics code.

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