Battle of Bosworth Field of visible combat. Despite the dramatic licences taken, Shakespeare's version of the Battle of Bosworth was the model of the event for English textbooks for many years during the 18th and 19th centuries. This glamorised version of history, promulgated in books and paintings and played out on stages across the country, perturbed humorist Gilbert Abbott à Beckett. He voiced his criticism in the form of a poem, equating the romantic view of the battle to watching a "fifth-rate production of "Richard III"": shabbily costumed actors fight the Battle of Bosworth on-stage while those with lesser roles lounge at the back,
Richard Lee Watkins III Richard Lee Watkins III Richard Lee Watkins III (born February 19, 1985) is an American scientist, politician, community organizer, academic and entrepreneur. Watkins was born in 1985 in Tyler, Texas and was raised in Greensboro, North Carolina. Watkins graduated from Fayetteville State University in 2007 and began his studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Medicine in 2009. After earning his PhD at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he founded The Science Policy Action Network, Inc. (SPAN), where he serves as the organization’s chief executive officer. Richard Lee Watkins III was born