History can sometimes be somewhat subjective; interpretation of events and available information can shape a person's understanding of a topic. There have been disagreements about history because of how interpretation and available evidence have shaped the way people describe historical accounts. That being said, there are more than just subjective differences in the portrayal of Shakespeare's "Richard III" and Josephine Tey's The Girl in Time as to who Richard III was as a person and how he became king. When one encounters two writings that describe one person as being very different from the other, many questions come to mind: What is so different about them? what is the truth if one or the other; and why are they so different? Shakespeare wrote the play “Richard III” to describe a very wicked man who did not deserve to be king of England. On the other hand, Joséphine Tey's book, The Daughter of Time, shows a man who for hundreds of years has been distorted and lied to. There are many important facts that are different in the two stories and are used to show the viewer their side of the story. Although these stories are fictional, they are also based on a person who actually existed and ruled England for a short time. In The Daughter of Time, the character Tey, Grant points out that Shakespeare's play was written based on the stories of John Morton who was the Archbishop of Canterbury under Henry VII; neither Henry VII nor Morton liked Richard III (p.95). Due to their dislike of Richard, it is possible that they wrote a story that is not true in order to make Henry VII seem like a better choice to be king. When analyzing the two stories, there are differences in...... middle of paper ...... of the story, important details may be missing that may change your understanding of the history. It is necessary to critically evaluate the source and evaluate where the information originally came from can make a source useful or worthless. Once you start learning more about a topic, it's essential that you come up with more questions to try to answer for greater understanding and clarity. Asking more questions will help you find connections and holes in the material being used. Contradictions between two sources can begin to become clearer in which direction to take if you have developed a set of problems that you are directly trying to solve. When studying history, it is necessary not to limit oneself to what is printed in history books, but also to look for other sources that can enrich and even correct the information found there.