Richard III (2 October 1452 – 22 August 1485), the last king of the House of York and the last of the Plantagenet dynasty, is remembered in history as a villainous murderer and a scheming hunchback. In this paper we will attempt to prove that Shakespeare’s depiction of Richard III was based on biased sources of information and was a part of Tudor political propaganda in order to defile the monarch’s reputation for generations to come.