Richard III's "Untidy" Grave

King Richard the Third, After and Before
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British monarch Richard the Third, whose life and death Shakespeare memorably dramatized, became a news item this year. His grave was recently found underneath a Leicester car park, hardly an august burial site for a king. Adding to the indignity was evidence that the ruler was buried in a "'hastily dug, untidy grave,'" according to University of Leicester researchers.

The story, written without any quotes from the Bard's The Life and Death of Richard the Third, appeared in online editions of the BBC.