Essays on Richard III

Analysing the conceptual resonances and contextual dissonances between King Richard III (RIII) and Looking For Richard (LFR), enables audiences to interpret the textual features and context, which has enabled Pacino to modernise RIII. Through this comparative study, audiences are able to contrast how the notions of religion and frailty has changed under the democratisation of...

Throughout history, literature and different forms of texts have been utilised in order to illuminate and convey attitudes, ideas and contextual issues in a variety of ways, creating conversations between the texts. Shakespeare’s Elizbaethan history play King Richard III (1593), explores the Machiavellian-like rise to power of King Richard, a character heavily influenced by Marlowism....

Throughout Shakespeare’s speech (written in Iambic pentameter), Richard III was shown as a hunchbacked, war loving person. He hated peace because he felt very out of place; ‘grim-visaged war hath smooth’d his wrinkled front.’ Everyone looked normal and not deformed except for him. In Shakespeare’s time, it was thought that if you were disabled and...