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Book Description
Final play in Shakespeare’s masterly dramatization of the struggle for power between the Houses of York and Lancaster. Richard is a stunning archvillain who schemes, seduces, betrays and murders his way to the throne, yet is capable of eliciting sympathy for his plight at the end. Explanatory Continue
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guaddess said on Oct 21, 2007 | Add your feedback
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Shakespeare's most popular villain completely dominates this play, murdering his way through the fifteenth century English aristocracy with gleeful abandon. It's one of the earlier plays and Shakespeare still seems to be writing under Marlowe's shadow, with the language at times being quite rigid an ... (continue)
David Johncock said on Oct 9, 2007 | Add your feedback
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- English Books
- Paperback 162 Pages
- ISBN-10: 185326055X
- ISBN-13: 9781853260551
- Publisher: NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company
- Pub date: Aug 01, 1997
- Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Unbound, Others and eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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For me, the tragedy of Shakespeare's historical dramatization of Richard III is that it has passed on to posterity the myth that Richard was a conniving, vicious, murderous machiavel who got what was coming to him. Many historians dissent from this view, but unfortunately, history is written by the ... (continue)
For me, the tragedy of Shakespeare's historical dramatization of Richard III is that it has passed on to posterity the myth that Richard was a conniving, vicious, murderous machiavel who got what was coming to him. Many historians dissent from this view, but unfortunately, history is written by the winners, as the saying goes, and the house of York lost the War of the Roses - and their name has been vilified through subsequent generations by Lancaster, and later Tudor, chroniclers. This play's perversion of the truth is nothing more than an example of Shakespeare pandering to the Tudor dynasty.
However, there are some redeeming qualities. Several excellent speeches and an intense climax highlight this otherwise forgettable - and regrettable - "historical" play.
Particularly interesting to modern readers is the mirroring of the haunting and taunting of Richard III on the night before his battle and the climax of "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire". It's a really nice "holler out" by Rowling to the immortal bard.
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