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The two could not have met; Richard died eighty years before Shakespeare was born. Therefore Shakespeare could not have based his opinions on personal knowledge. The historians he relied upon had good reason to badmouth Richard, since they were all writing in the reign of his successor, who had an extremely dodgy claim to the throne. It was the politically correct thing to do during the reign of the Tudors to make Richard out as bad as possible, and that's what Shakespeare did.

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