I could believe this bunch of weird theatre kids would quote Shakespeare at each other constantly, to be honest! But that didn't keep me from occasionally going, 'Guys, this is a time for clear communication that is not buried in quotes from five different Shakespeare plays.'

Also, it's weird that writing for this fandom demanded more Shakespeare research than the period in which my main fandom was Macbeth.

now I want them all trapped in a time loop which only ever resets to the day after Richard's death and their initial interrogations, so that it's always just too late to let them fix *the* mistake.

This is an incredible idea. I don't know if you're contemplating writing it or just throwing the concept out into the world, but, if you did write this, I would read the hell out of it.