Richard III (No Fear Shakespeare) by SparkNotes Editors, SparkNotes Staff

Richard III (No Fear Shakespeare) SparkNotes Editors, SparkNotes Staff ebook
Publisher: Sterling
Page: 343
Format: pdf
ISBN: 9781411401020

Using the No Fear Shakespeare text, Facing Page Productions is staging a plain English version of Richard III. Henry Tudor's envoy to the city, sent the day after the battle, reportedly did not dare to enter York 'for fear of death'. If Edward V was truly his father's son, then Richard had a great deal fear from him-he would have certainly fought ferociously to regain his crown the way Edward IV fought after he was dispossessed in 1470. No Fear Shakespeare - on one page we find Shakespeare's Gobbledygook, while on the next page we find the Gobbledygook translated into Plain English. To quote Shakespeare, "Say I slew them not?" "Then say there are Unlike me, Ellen has no real interest in the case of Richard III in the specifics, but rather in what the proposed state funeral would amount to in principle: -. The debate is, I fear, going to become cemented into two warring sides – those who think Richard could do no wrong and those who believe him guilty of serial murder. Richard's reputation has suffered over the last four centuries by dint of having the most powerful and persuasive of detractors in the person of Shakespeare: his Richard III portrays the late king as a deformed, jealous and duplicitous killer, responsible for the murders of his wife, a brother and two young nephews. To me he is, just like Warwick, a man. Will it open the door to more Shakespeare fans? Those of us caught in the middle might just end up being squashed. And this is the reason I'm not I never believed in either Shakespeare's over the top villain or the saint that some try to make him. Alison used Shakespeare's Richard III as the running thread of her lecture, using especially slides from the 1955 Laurence Olivier film version which she said was her favorite (it is the only major film production staged in contemporary dress).