Volume 223 Issue 2, 21 July 2017
The Dentistry in Literature series: Richard III
For the cover series of this volume (223) of the BDJ, we have chosen to illustrate various instances where dentistry or teeth feature in literature. A wide range of sources have been considered - from well-known 'great works' to more obscure authors, older texts to modern novels and from mentions of dentists to descriptions of some very unusual teeth! This issue features Shakespeare's historical play Richard III, which refers to the appearance of Richard's teeth as a newborn as a portent for his future villainy. In the play, before he is killed by Richard, the saintly King Henry VI declares:
'Teeth hadst thou in thy head when thou wast born, To signify thou camest to bite the world.'
Credit: Illustration by Matthew Laznicka
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