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RICHARD III(ISBN=9780553213041)
Amazon.co.uk Review "Now is the winter ofour discontent," intones Richard, Duke of Gloucester at thebeginning of Shakespeare's Richard III , one of his mostabidingly popular plays, and one of the most chilling portrayals ofpolitical tyranny ever seen on stage. Richard emerges from thechaos which surrounds the reign of Henry VI, already dramatised byShakespeare earlier in his career, determined to become king byremoving his elder brother Edward IV by convincing him that theirbrother Clarence is plotting against the crown. The deaths of bothClarence and Edward take Richard inexorably towards the crown, andthe series of murders and conspiracies that Richard mastermindsconfirms his claim that "I am determined to prove a villain".Richard's political and sexual charisma are truly chilling, and hisseduction of Lady Anne, over her husband's corpse is one of themost disturbing scenes in Shakespeare. At another level, the playis also a strongly anti-Yorkist play, which has a vested interestin portraying Richard as
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RICHARD II(ISBN=9780553213034)
Amazon.co.uk Review One of Shakespeare'sfinest history plays, Richard II deals with one of the mostsensitive and politically explosive issues of its day--the rightsand wrongs of deposing a legitimately appointed king. Forerunner tothe two parts of Henry IV , the play deals with theabdication of King Richard II in 1399, the subsequent succession ofBolingbroke, the future King Henry IV, and Richard's death in thespring of 1400. But the play has been celebrated above and beyondits stature as historical drama. Richard II begins with aportrait of Richard as a pompous, arrogant and self-regardingsovereign, with little sense of his people or his politicalresponsibilities. As he consistently miscalculates in his attemptsto destroy Bolingbroke, and watches his own power wane, he becomesa far more appealing, Hamlet-like figure, more interested in "talkof graves, of worms and epitaphs", and "sad stories of the death ofkings". Richard's speeches become increasingly lyrical and poeticas his supporters desert him,
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