Katherine Blakeny 2010 about richards evil charcter
a brilliant schemer and…
manipulator, completely devoid of scruples of any kind.
Katherine Blakeny 2010 about Richmonds empty character
‘Richard may be…
‘His monologues are…
the epitome of vice, but the heroic richmond.. is just bland.’
devoid of feeling and his character is too lifeless and formal to even seem virtuous.’
Katherine Blakeny 2010 about Shakespeare’s anachronism
Shakespeare makes it amply…
obvious that he is prepared to cast all historical accuracy to the winds for the sake of his dramatic vision.
Michael Donkor 2016 about disfigurement
‘Richard III is a text fascinated with …
the unsightly and the disfugured’
‘Innocent young bodies are subjected to ‘ruthful butchery’’
Michael Donkor 2016 about Richards self-loathing
‘almost transforms this…
cunning ‘boar’ into a victim worthy of our sympathy’
Michael Donkor 2016 about the conflict of richards character
His refusal to fit…
neatly and attractively within the ideological boundaries that we would like him to.’
Michael Donkor 2016
richards barbarism…
however, is gratuitous
Michael Donkor 2016 about richards skill for disguise
Richard finds great value…
in his almost improbable skill for adopting different positions; vicious one minute, seemingly benevolent the next
Michael Donkor 2016 about richards conflicted mind
His inner world…
is a wild and inhospitable terrain where ambition, misanthropy, hubris and self-loathing are knotted
Harry Cunningham notes that the earliest copy was titled a tragedy rather than a history.
“In the earliest copy of the play we have…
Richard III is also described as ‘The Tragedy of King Richard the Third’”
Harry Cunningham considers different ways of reading Shakespeare’s Richard III
“let’s consider reading the play…
as it may have originally been intended: as a tragedy.”
Chris Sandford on the repetition and poetic devices in Richard III
“The play is so full of patterns in the dialogue and…
repetitions in the structure that at times it seems more like a piece of music than drama.”
Discrepancies in the historical accuracy of the play could be rationalizes/explained by Chris Sandford:
“dramatising a large chunk of…
“Richard III is an object lesson in the use of style and…
history is a very difficult task to do accurately and coherently.”
technique to create effective drama from a complex source.”
