Dramatically, yes. A story about a wicked man who claws his way to the top of the heap only to find that he cannot hold on to the power he has won is compelling. A similar plot was used by Shakespeare in Macbeth, and formed the basis of gangster films like Little Caesar and The Public Enemy.Historically, not so much so. As we are pretty much convinced that the skeleton under the parking lot was, in fact, that of Richard, the massive hump and withered arm are seen to be a creation of Tudor Propaganda. So, too, is the laying at Richard's door of blame for the death of anyone who happened to die at that time. One might look skeptically at the Richard III society and other whitewashers who have tried to clear Richard from all possible blame for anything, but there can be no question that the warped Tudor account on which, perforce, Shakespeare based his play was wildly inaccurate.