Should Steve Coogan be worried about being sued over Richard III?

A university administrator claims ‘The Lost King’ makes him out to be ‘patronising’ and ‘misogynistic’ – and so he’s taking the film director and comedian to court. James Moore weighs up the evidence

Steve Coogan is being sued for libel by a university professor over his portrayal in ‘The Lost King’ (PA Archive)

Now is the winter of our discontent,” says Richard the Third in the Shakespeare play of that name.

So discontented was another Richard – that would be the university administrator Richard Taylor – about a film concerning that monarch, that he cried “a lawyer, a lawyer, my kingdom for a lawyer”.

I jest, of course: but there’s a serious side to this tragedy, A very serious side.