Portrayal of character in Steve Coogan’s film The Lost King is defamatory, judge rules
Coogan, production company Baby Cow and Pathe, the distributors of the 2022 film, will now face a full trial
March 2024
The Q&A
Philippa Gregory: ‘I’m lazy domestically. I don’t do housework. My mother would have called me a slut’
Richard, My Richard review – like a medieval version of The Crown
February 2024
Steve Coogan and makers of The Lost King sued by academic over his portrayal in the film
Acting, disability and the problem with ‘lived experience’
January 2024
‘I’m done with pretenders’: disabled actors on reclaiming Richard III
Shakespeare’s Globe criticised for casting non-disabled actor as Richard III
November 2023
Napoleon and The Crown are travesties: there is no ‘artistic licence’ to distort history
Simon Jenkins
In a sick world, it is dangerous for film-makers to fabricate and embellish in the name of entertainment, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
July 2023
‘His story just continues to grip people’: Philippa Gregory revisits the history of Richard III for stage
The historical novelist’s first play looks again at the ‘panto villain’ image of the king reviled by Shakespeare
September 2022
The Lost King review – Frears and Coogan’s Richard III excavation story rewrites its own history
Sally Hawkins is amiable enough as the amateur historian who locates the long-dead monarch – but the uneven script digs its own grave
So Richard III was a good guy? Really? The Lost King: Imagining Richard III – review
Its standout exhibit is Paul Delaroche’s painting of the two princes the monarch jailed awaiting death. Why does this vogue-ishly pro-Richard show, a tie-in with the Steve Coogan film, place a question mark over it?
Unfinish’d sympathy: can literature get over reading disability morally?
The ‘crookednesse’ of Richard III’s back was presented by Shakespeare as an expression of his villainy while Quasismodo embodied saintly unworldliness. Are we ready to see disability without symbolism?
August 2022
Brief letters
Golden days and the autumn of life
Brief letters: Protecting nature | Losing trust in the BBC | Welsh welcome | No hunch about Richard III
Royal row erupts over Steve Coogan film about Richard III
Archaeologists fear they are ‘villains of the piece’ in movie, co-written by Coogan and directed by Stephen Frears, about search for British monarch
‘I had goosebumps!’ – the finder of Richard III’s remains in a car park is celebrated in a Steve Coogan film
As the astonishing story of the king’s bones being discovered in Leicester hits the screen, we meet the sleuth whose extraordinary tenacity – despite chronic illness – located the monarch
February 2022
‘There’s a truth to it’: RSC casts disabled actor as Richard III
Arthur Hughes says decision for 2022 production will allow lived experience to be ‘shown properly’
December 2019
Richard III and a Roman rabbit: the finds of the decade
Now is the winter of our GCSEs: Teenage Dick sends Richard III back to school
October 2019
Portrait of Richard III goes on public display for first time
Hever Castle’s new painting depicts king described as ‘murderous thug’ by historian David Starkey
July 2018
Fifty works at National Portrait Gallery are 'coming home'
London gallery sends artworks to towns and cities closely associated with their subjects
