Richard III Bones (1) Art is not Fact!

Complete skeleton of Richard III

They discovered that the king had a “well-balanced curve,” meaning that his head and neck were straight and not tilted to one side, so all that talk in the bard's play about how freakish he looked were overstatements, made up well after the fact. While the feet are missing from the skeleton, Richard III's legs seemed normal too, another strike against Shakespeare.

Reference: Shakespeare Was Wrong: Richard III Wasn't a Club-Footed Hunchback.

Anzan Hoshin Roshi posted this article on our Shakespeare community on Google+, and I felt compelled to comment:

Even the brightest scientist (and writer) seem particularly clueless about the fact that Shakespeare was a playwright, a poet, and an actor. He was not a medical examiner or an investigative reporter. As an artist, Shakespeare was at liberty to fabricate Richard III, in order to achieve a dramatic purpose. Reinterpreting or dismissing fact is the freedom of art. So words like "wrong," "fault,"and "overstatements" sound amusing at best and ignorant at worst.