Battle of Bosworth Field his successors that the public started to believe the battle had decided their futures by bringing about "the fall of a tyrant". William Shakespeare gives prominence to the Battle of Bosworth in his play, "Richard III". It is the "one big battle"; no other fighting scene distracts the audience from this action, represented by a one-on-one sword fight between Henry Tudor and Richard III. Shakespeare uses their duel to bring a climactic end to the play and the Wars of the Roses; he also uses it to champion morality, portraying the "unequivocal triumph of good over evil". Richard, the villainous
Richard Field (Jesuit) Richard Field (Jesuit) Richard Field or De la Field (1554?–1606) was an Anglo-Irish Jesuit. Richard Field was born about 1554 to an Old English family in Corduff, County Dublin. He studied at Douai, entered the Society of Jesus about 1582, and became a professed father. In April 1599 he was sent from Flanders to Fathers Fitzsimon and Archer in his native country, and he became superior of the Irish Jesuit mission, displaying remarkable prudence and mildness in his office. There are still extant several of his letters which abound with interesting details of the Catholic affairs of Ireland. He died