Riccardo III

Anne And thou unfit for any place but hell. Richard Yes, one place else, if you will hear me name it. Anne Some dungeon. Richard Your bedchamber. !!!!!!!!!!!

I remembered this play as being nothing more than a superb melodrama organized around a charismatic, one-dimensional villain, but I now realize it is more complex than that. Richard's deformity is not merely a physical sign of spiritual evil, but also a metaphor for the twisted era of internecine an Leggi tutto

Shakespeare wrote two titanic tetralogies at the start of his career, spanning through the dynasties of 15th-century kings of England, from Edward III down to Henry VII. The second half of this gigantic saga (Henry VI, Parts 1 , 2 and 3 + Richard III ) has a general downward and inward movement. Downwa Leggi tutto

A hero, in his own mind or a historical villain? King Richard the Third , grew up in the turbulent years of the War of the Roses, 1455-1485, the English crown fought between the House of York, symbolized by the White Rose, and the House of Lancaster, the Red Rose, Sovereigns on the throne, vanish ra Leggi tutto

Ah good old Dick III. Killing yer husbands, killing yer children. An all-round family guy.

I played Anne in my school's production of Richard III when I was 15. In the seduction scene from Act 1, the guy playing Richard, who was a complete asshole, decided to put his hand on my left breast somewhere towards the end. I turned round and punched him in the face, knocking out one of his teeth Leggi tutto

"A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse! Poor old Richard. I think you needed more than that horse to save your kingdom…..

4 out of 5 stars to William Shakespeare 's famous play, Richard III , one of his "War of the Roses" tragedies produced in the 16th century in England. People have generally heard of this King, and know more about him than they realize, but he is not one of the more famously read plays in high school o Leggi tutto