The play’s the thing
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Another version of Shakespeare’s Richard…which means the same old, same old, of course. This one is slightly different in that the lead is played by a woman, Emily Carding. She may be truly excellent, I don’t know, but the usual humpy back, evil psychopath, crawling around the stage and so on is much in evidence. If you’re a…
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Oh, dear, yet another actor well in his fifties, playing Richard, who was just in his thirties! I suppose they have to do this, so that Shakespeare’s daftness about Richard fighting in the 1st Battle of St Albans (when he was still only two) can appear more likely to the gullible! What do I think…
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The link below will take you to a lesson in what happens when someone has no knowledge or understanding of the real man around whom a work of fiction is woven. This reviewer clearly believes William Shakespeare’s description of Richard III, and the result is so full of historical inaccuracies, claptrap and misjudgement that it…
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I think increasingly it is Richard who has ultimately gained the greater victory. Henry won temporal power and died in his bed but Richard has gained a kind of immortality that Henry could never hope to achieve and went down fighting as a warrior king with the symbols of his kingship on his body. If…
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Michael Miclon, left, as Richard III and Hannah Perry as Lady Ann. Contibuted photo THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE IS FROM: Centralmaine.com “Richard3″ film to show at Johnson Hall in Gardiner GARDINER — Johnson Hall Performing Arts Center, Water Street, will present “Richard3″ at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 18. Tickets cost $6. The new film by Michael Miclon,…
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We all know that his history was suspect, although possibly as good as the sources of his time dictated. Here is a review of his literary style:
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I have long been interested in genealogy and, like most family historians, the Holy Grail is to connect my family to Royalty, especially Richard III! Unfortunately this is nearly impossible*, but I have done it in an indirect way. I found out that my 4 x great grandfather was a portrait painter by the name…
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If the review at the link below is accurate, I am bemused. Just one word. Why? http://www.theartsdesk.com/theatre/richard-iii-wales-millennium-centre
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This past weekend, the beloved Film Forum – one of New York City’s last revival houses – screened a restored version of “Chimes at Midnight,” Orson Welles’ 1965 underrated masterpiece in which he starred as, possibly, the definitive Falstaff. Sadly, this movie hasn’t been seen in either general release or in video/dvd format for thirty…
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White Lily’s “Richard III: The Murderous Machiavel?” post, here in Murray & Blue on 31 January 2015, is beautifully presented and argued, with the subject deserving extensive research and multiple books on its own. But I think we’re playing into anti-Ricardian hands if we set Richard III beside Machiavelli’s The Prince. There is another way.…
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