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We now know that Richard III had mild scoliosis. Was Shakespeare's depiction of him as a monstrous hunchbacked mustache-twirling villain consistent with other portrayals of him in this era? What resources would Shakespeare have relied on to base his depiction?

by /u/td4999 in /r/AskHistorians

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