Shakespeare
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http://www.timeout.com/chicago/blog/casting-announced-for-the-gift-theatres-richard-iii-011216 Do you think Mr Thornton will shave for the role of Richard? Or is there to be a fashion for hirsute Richards? I do hope not. (See http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/event/article-3388669/TV-historian-adding-Game-Thrones-sizzle-Wars-Roses.html)
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John Wilkes Booth may have assassinated Abraham Lincoln, but prior to that he was a noted Shakespearean actor, who “…framed his King Richard as a very tragic and even sympathetic figure, more so than the character is originally.” http://www.mystatesman.com/news/entertainment/arts-theater/ransom-center-celebrates-shakespeare/npsXK/
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/12077552/best-tv-shows-2016.html Is Benedict Cumberbatch your notion of Shakespeare’s Richard? He isn’t mine, so this viewing prospect isn’t at all juicy. I imagine I’m in the minority!
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December 28th was the Feast of the Innocents, commemorating the day in which Herod slaughtered young male children in an attempt to kill the newborn Christ-child. In medieval England it was an important feast day and also part of the ‘Feast of Fools’. In many towns and cities over the festive season the church authority…
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KING’S GAMES: A MEMOIR OF RICHARD III
Anne Neville, Battle of Bosworth, book review, Cecily Duchess of York, character, Earl of Northumberland, Edmund of Rutland, Edward IV, Francis Lovell, George Duke of Clarence, Henry of Buckingham, Henry VII, historical fiction, Isobel Neville, Josephine Tey, King’s Games, Minster Lovell, Nance Crawford, Paul Murray Kendall, Richard III, Shakespeare, Sir William Stanley, Stoke Field, Thomas Lord StanleyA Verse Play in Two Acts with Commentaries By Nance Crawford “The play’s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king” (Hamlet) To be honest, I am not much taken with modern Ricardian fiction. I think that in the last five centuries too much fiction and too little fact has been written about…
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“Without a bad guy, who could ever be good?” ~The Agent, “Sweet Redemption Music Company” “Though it puzzles me to learn that though a man may be in doubt of what he knows, very quickly will he fight to prove that what he does not know is so.” ~”The King and I” Thou elvish-marked, abortive,…
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The Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot Deck (RWS) is arguably the most famous of 20th-century Tarot decks. For decades, I’ve been using the RWS as an aid to developing fictional characters. Only recently did I notice the Death card in the Major Arcana features a skeletal knight carrying a banner on which is imprinted the White Rose of…
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We have posted before about the lives of noblewomen and how they were almost never executed before the “Tudor” era began – including how King Lear, featuring the death of Cordelia, reflected this changed reality. Here is as near as we can manage to a counter-example from 1003, after the St. Brice’s Day Massacre of…
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Originally posted on Giaconda's Blog: Having just written two blogs on Henry Vth and touched on this subject, I wanted to explore Shakespeare’s re-occurring theme of the burdens of kingship in his history plays with particular reference to Richard II and Henry IV, Parts I and II and on into Henry Vth and Richard…
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This piece by Phillippe Starck is described as “An armchair and a conversation piece, Richard III is a creative personification of Shakespeare’s character, much like the controversial reign of King Richard III, the intriguing design and meticulous realization of the armchair is heavily centered on duality and paradox of its namesake; traditional vs. modern, concave…
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