article_snippet.sent: Now a new academic paper claims that even this condition, which caused one of Richard III shoulders to be slightly higher than the other, was probably not known about until after death in battle.
article_snippet.sent: The genetic analysis showed that Richard III almost certainly had blue eyes and likely had blonde hair - although it may have darkened with age.
article_snippet.sent: Richard III was depicted by William Shakespeare as a tyrannical hunchback who murdered two princes in the Tower of London.
article_snippet.sent: Writing in the journal Medical Humanities, Dr Lund argues that like other monarchs Richard III's body image would have been carefully controlled.
article_snippet.sent: Instead Dr Lund says that Richard III's appearance became increasingly distorted through out the Tudor period.
article_snippet.sent: Dr Lund said: 'Stage history has reincarnated Richard III's as monster, villain and clown, but recent events have helped us to re-evaluate these physically defined depictions and strip back the cultural accretions that have surrounded Richard III's body.
article_snippet.sent: Yet, it may have been only a relatively small group of people in Richard III's's trusted circle who knew of Richard III's condition.
article_snippet.sent: What is certain is that, after Richard III's death, the exposure of Richard III's's body went beyond the two days of Richard's body exhibition in Leicester. '
article_snippet.sent: That moment after Bosworth inaugurated a longer and more brutalising process, in which an ever-more twisted physique was revealed to the public eye, Richard's body becoming deployed as a major tactic in the rhetorical strategy against Richard III's.
article_snippet.sent: When Shakespeare's Richard boasts of Shakespeare's Richard shape-changing potential, Shakespeare's Richard registers too the bending course of history and myth making.'
article_snippet.sent: However, there are some that point to the alleged murder of Richard III's nephews Edward V and Richard of Shrewsbury - the so called Princes in the Tower - as evidence of the king's character.
article_snippet.sent: some that point to the alleged murder of Richard III's nephews Edward V and Richard of Shrewsbury - the so called Princes in the Tower - as evidence of the king's character say this act of infanticide is what earned the king