Richard III
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Why the Battle of Bosworth Field is difficult to reconstruct...it even more difficult to do justice to what actually took place. He casts Richard III as a monstrous deformed tyrant, who received his just deserts on the field of battle. There is no denying the play's dramatic power, as it reaches its... In this article: Richard III, Battle of Bosworth Field, William Shakespeare, Laurence Olivier, England, Richard III of England, and Spain |
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BBC News | October 28, 2009
New battle over Bosworth's site
It is one of Shakespeare's most memorable scenes. The hunchback Richard III, thrown from his horse and maddened with blood lust, offers up his kingdom in exchange for a replacement steed. Treachery Today the spot where he is supposed to...
In this article: Battle of Bosworth, Henry VII, William Shakespeare, and England
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The Daily Trojan | October 27, 2009
USC equestrian team sets its sights on a national championship
...out confident. Your interviewer Googles you, Facebooks you and generally stalks ... In truth, Shakespeare's Richard III needs us far more than we need it. It is a play purely for the stage, not the classroom. Without ... 'Stan Helsing' a...
In this article: Trojans, Pumpkin, William Shakespeare, and Lost in Space
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VH1 Movie News | October 29, 2009
Tom Hanks, Tokio Hotel And More Reveal Horror Films They Would Remake
...- a bunch of them, in fact: the "Saw" franchise that Kaulitz so adores. But if he had the choice, Bell would take Shakespeare's "Richard III" for a frightening ride. "I think that'd be fascinating," he said, reasoning that while there have...
In this article: Tom Hanks, Saw, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Tobin Bell, Oscar, and VH1
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Daily Mail | October 29, 2009
500 years of history missed Bosworth Field by two miles
...by two miles Last updated at 10:18 AM on 29th October 2009 It saw the death of Richard III, ushered in the Tudor dynasty and gave Shakespeare one of his best known quotations. Now, 500 years after one of the most important clashes in...
In this article: Battle of Bosworth Field, Stoke Golding, William Shakespeare, Leicestershire, and Silver
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Kansas City Star | October 31, 2009
‘Richard III' is up next for Heart of America Shakespeare Festival
...deformed and thoroughly malevolent. He often takes the audience into his confidence in witty soliloquies in which he embraces his villainy and explains how he plans to murder his way to the throne. Modern scholars believe the popular...
In this article: Iago, William Shakespeare, Battle of Bosworth Field, Othello, Faith Healer, and Ian McKellen
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Richard III is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1591. The play is an unflattering depiction of the short reign of Richard III of England.While generally classified as a history, as grouped in the First Folio, the play is sometimes called a tragedy (as in the first quarto). It picks up the story from Henry VI, Part 3 and concludes the historical series that stretches back to Richard II. After Hamlet, it is Shakespeare's second longest play and is the longest of the First Folio, whose version of Hamlet is shorter than the Quarto version. The length is generally seen as a drawback, for which reason it is rarely performed unabridged. It is often shortened by cutting peripheral characters.
Another reason for editing is that Shakespeare assumed that his audiences would be familiar with the Henry VI plays, and frequently made indirect references to events in them, such as Richard's murder of Henry VI or the defeat of Henry's queen Margaret. Nowadays the previous plays are less well-known, so the character of Margaret is often cut and extra lines are sometimes invented or added from the trilogy to explain the characters' relationships.
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