The Tragedy of King Richard III
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Richard III is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays on the stage and has been adapted successfully for film. This new and innovative edition recognizes the play's pre-eminence as a performance work: a perspective that informs every aspect of the editing. challenging traditional practice, the textContinue
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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 424 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0192839934
- ISBN-13: 9780192839930
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
- Pub date: Mar 12, 2001
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Unbound, Others and eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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Kaspar Lam 
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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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