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
Bosworth Hall (Market Bosworth) Sir Wolstan, oblivious of any other fight than his own". The last Dixie of Bosworth Hall, Sir Alexander Beaumont Churchill Dixie, 11th Baronet (1851–1924), who was known as "Sir A.B.C.D." or "Beau", was High Sheriff of Leicestershire for 1876. In 1875, he married Lady Florence Dixie (1855–1905), who in her lifetime was well known as a writer, feminist, big game hunter, war correspondent, and suffragette. While still living at Bosworth she wrote the best-seller "Across Patagonia" (1880). She was a sister of the Marquess of Queensberry who gave his name to the Marquess of Queensberry rules and an aunt of