Battle of Bosworth Field lead character, has been built up in the battles of Shakespeare's earlier play, "Henry VI, Part 3", as a "formidable swordsman and a courageous military leader"—in contrast to the dastardly means by which he becomes king in "Richard III". Although the Battle of Bosworth has only five sentences to direct it, three scenes and more than four hundred lines precede the action, developing the background and motivations for the characters in anticipation of the battle. Shakespeare's account of the battle was mostly based on chroniclers Edward Hall's and Raphael Holinshed's dramatic versions of history, which were sourced from Vergil's chronicle.
Richard S. Prather Richard S. Prather Manuscript Collection at the University of Wyoming, in Laramie, Wyoming. At Prather's death in 2007, he had completed but not published his last Shell Scott Mystery. His final novel, "The Death Gods", was published October 2011, in print and ebook formats by Pendleton Artists, with permission of the Richard S. Prather Estate and Linda Pendleton. Prather's wife, Tina, died in April 2004, after 58 years of marriage. As David Knight As Douglas Ring Richard S. Prather Richard Scott Prather". (September 9, 1921 – February 14, 2007) was an American mystery novelist, best known for creating the "Shell