Proudly manipulative while obsessively self-loathing, Shakespeare’s Richard III is a portrait of the perverse. One watches Richard sacrifice everything and everyone in pursuit of power. There is no purpose to his pursuit except to deprive anyone else of that power. He is depravity personified.He ...
For me, this play will forever be associated with Neil Simon’s The Goodbye Girl and Richard Dreyfuss’ exaggerated effeminate portrayal of Richard III in that off-off-Broadway production of Shakespeare’s play.But now having finally read Shakespeare’s play, I think I know where Dickens got his inspira...
Richard II is one of my favorite histories, partly because the actual events surrounding Richard's fall offer plenty of drama, and partly because of its sheer beauty. Richard is eloquent to a fault - literally; he'd rather give flowery speeches than actually do anything. But what speeches! You al...
So far, the best of the first three histories (in chronological reign) that Shakespeare wrote, which is not saying much.Favorite quote, referring to undeaf ears: "No; it is stopp'd with other flattering sounds,/ As praises of his state: then there are fond/Lascivous metres, to whose venom sound/The ...
Shakespeare’s Richard II is more famous (or perhaps simply better known) play than Marlowe’s Edward II. The two plays are markedly similar in plot, both deal with the deposing of an anointed monarch, though Marlowe is far more upfront about the homosexual aspect of the plot. The fame of Shakespear...
Listening to Richard II, I've swung between awarding 2, 3 or 4 stars to it. Initially, the play didn't impress, and the soliloquies seemed overwrought and overlong. However, the persevering soul will find some amazing, four-star-worthy passages, the most famous perhaps being Gaunt's paean to England...
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