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Richard III by William Shakespeare

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Richard III Quotes
1,672 words, approx. 6 pages
The Life and Death of King Richard III is William Shakespeare 's version of the short career of Richard III of England , who receives a singularly unflattering depiction. The play is sometimes interpreted as a tragedy; however, it more correctly...


Author Biography

Name: William Shakespeare
Birth Date: April 23, 1564
Death Date: April 23, 1616
Place of Birth: Stratford-upon-Avon, England
Place of Death: Stratford-upon-Avon, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer

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Biography of William Shakespeare
35385 words, approx. 118 pages
"He was not of an age, but for all time." So wrote Ben Jonson in his dedicatory verses to the memory of William Shakespeare in 1623, and so we continue to affirm today. No other writer, in English or in any other language, can rival the appeal that Shake...
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Biography of William Shakespeare
30474 words, approx. 101.6 pages
"He was not of an age, but for all time." So wrote Ben Jonson in his dedicatory verses to the memory of William Shakespeare in 1623, and so we continue to affirm today. No other writer, in English or in any other language, can rival the appeal that Shake...
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Biography of William Shakespeare
10254 words, approx. 34.2 pages
William Shakespeare's reputation is based primarily on his plays. With the partial exception of the Sonnets (1609), quarried since the early nineteenth century for autobiographical secrets allegedly encoded in them, the nondramatic writings have traditio...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Richard III Summary
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Richard III by William Shakespeare Born in 1564 in Stratford-on-Avon, England, William Shakespeare was the son of middle-class parents. Although not all the particulars of Shakespeare’s education are known, it appears that he attended the local...
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Richard III Information
4,987 words, approx. 17 pages
Richard III is William Shakespeare's unflattering depiction of the short reign of Richard III of England. The play is sometimes classified as a tragedy (as in the earliest quarto); but it more correctly belongs to the histories, as classified in the...


News and Journals
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McKellen says Lear role is nerve-racking
7/18/2007: 260 words, approx. 1 pages
Ian McKellen says playing the title character in William Shakespeare's "King Lear" is more nerve-racking than his recent Hollywood film roles.Singapore is the first stop on the Royal Shakespeare Company's international tour of "King Lear" and "The Seagull" by Anton Chekhov."'King Lear,' I've been seeing...
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Today in history - Aug. 22
8/22/2007: 581 words, approx. 2 pages
Today is Wednesday, Aug. 22, the 234th day of 2007. There are 131 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Aug. 22, 1787, inventor John Fitch demonstrated his steamboat on the Delaware River to delegates of the Continental Congress.On this date:In 1485, England's King...
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Investor's Business Daily
Patterson Staged A Huge Draw
5/10/2007: 1,112 words, approx. 4 pages
Tom Patterson enjoyed the theater, but his real goal in creating the Stratford Festival was to revive the fortunes of the faded Canadian town where he was raised.He turned that idea into the largest classical repertory theater company in North America.Today the Stratford Festival is...
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The New York Observer
How Nice of Denzel to Join Us! But This Brutus Is a Bust
4/24/2005: 1,479 words, approx. 5 pages
I must say that I've never appreciated movie stars who treat theater as a form of charity work. They sacrifice too much for me."So why knock yourself out?" The Times asked Denzel Washington about his role as Brutus in Julius Caesar on Broadway. "It's obviously...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Mary Ann McGrail
14,532 words, approx. 48 pages
In the following essay, McGrail argues that Richard's belief that no one can love his deformed body is what drives him to seek vengeance against his world and the people in it.
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Critical Essay by Robert G. Hunter
12,011 words, approx. 40 pages
In the following essay, Hunter reviews the plot and characters of Richard III, and also discusses Shakespeare's adaptation of his sources.
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Critical Essay by Michael Neill
11,100 words, approx. 37 pages
In the following essay, Neill examines the psychological complexity of Richard's character.
 
Featured Essays
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Essay Grade: 88%
The Tragedy of Richard III
1,781 words, approx. 6 pages
Analyzes the psychology of the main charachter in Shakespeare's Richard III. Explores themes of insanity, numbness to feeling, and irrational actions.
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Essay Grade: 88%
Transgression in the Eyes of Playwrights from Different Eras
1,456 words, approx. 5 pages
Both Sophocles' The Oedipus Cycle and Shakespeare's "Richard III" successfully illustrated non-changing themes from their respective time periods, containing similarly malicious characters and protagonists that illustrate the two playwrights' paralleled sense of what transgression is. Three major connections between the characters and their unruly behavior in both plays are the price that rulers paid for their arrogance and hunger for power, infidelity among women and its consequences, and the ka
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Essay Grade: 94%
The Invocation of Moral Codes in Richard III
1,118 words, approx. 4 pages
Essay consists of a description of physionomy and morality in Shakespeare's "Richard III."
 


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