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	Richard III (play) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The play begins with Richard describing the accession to the throne of his brother, King Edward IV of England, eldest son of the late Richard, Duke of York.
		Richard's language and undertones of self-remorse seem to indicate that, in the final hour, he is repentant for his evil deeds, however, it is too late.
		Richard III is the culmination of the cycle of "Wars of the Roses" plays.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_III_(play) (2335 words)

	Play Synopsis - Richard III
		Richard III sends Richard Duke of York and his brother Edward V to the Tower of London to "sleep", though he, Buckingham, and Catesby plan to kill the boys and crown Richard III.
		Richard III tells Buckingham to start rumours that Edward IV's children are bastards and furthermore that Edward IV himself was a bastard.
		Richard III plans to have Clarence's daughter married off to a poor man to get rid of her.
	www.onlineshakespeare.com /richard3syn.htm (1004 words)

	INTIMAN Theatre: Richard III, About The Play (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Wars of the Roses were a series of civil wars, based on a struggle for the English crown, fought in medieval England between two branches of the royal Plantagenet family: the House of Lancaster, whose symbol was a Red Rose, and the House of York, whose symbol was a White Rose.
		Henry VI’s branch of the family, the Lancastrians (the party of the Red Rose), was challenged by the Yorkist branch of the family (the party of the White Rose), which denied the legitimacy of the Lancastrian claim to the throne.
		Richard also attacks Queen Elizabeth and her ‘upstart’ kindred—Lord Rivers, the Marquis of Dorset, and Lord Grey—who are considered ambitious social climbers.
	www.intiman.org /plays/d_about.html (585 words)

	Richard III with Ian McKellen
		Richard Loncraine and Ian McKellen have adapted Shakespeare's Richard III for the big screen and put the characters and action into an imaginary fascist Europe and England of the 1930s.
		To the end of the drama, Richard III fights for his life and almost whispers the famous line: "A horse, a horse, a kingdom for a horse".
		Despite the mentioned failures and liberties taken, Richard III is a great and at times shocking drama, cinema at its best, with colours, costumes, decor, music, action and actors wisely put together.
	www.cosmopolis.ch /english/cosmo4/richard.htm (1101 words)

	Richard III - Play
		The play and the movies can be confusing the first time through, but with a little background and a printout of this web page at your side, you should be able to follow the plot and understand the issues.
		It is important to note that Richard III was the last of the Plantagenet line (stretching back to 1154) and ending with the death of Richard at the end of this play in 1485.
		Richard expresses self-hatred, his mother is disgusted by him, his body is visibly loathsome, and to all this he adds his own wickedness, with a sly smile.
	pages.cabrini.edu /jzurek/shakes/r3play.htm (1569 words)

	Britannia: Monarchs of Britain
		Richard III, the eleventh child of Richard, Duke of York, and Cecily Neville, was born in 1452.
		Richard's power was immense, and upon the death of Edward IV, he positioned himself to seize the throne from the young Edward V.
		Richard of Gloucester was crowned Richard III on July 6, 1483.
	www.britannia.com /history/monarchs/mon39.html (445 words)

	SparkNotes: Richard III: Plot Overview
		Next Richard kills the court noblemen who are loyal to the princes, most notably Lord Hastings, the lord chamberlain of England.
		Richard then imprisons the young princes in the Tower and, in his bloodiest move yet, sends hired murderers to kill both children.
		By this time, Richard’s reign of terror has caused the common people of England to fear and loathe him, and he has alienated nearly all the noblemen of the court—even the power-hungry Buckingham.
	www.sparknotes.com /shakespeare/richardiii/summary.html (525 words)

	Richard III - Shakespeare
		Richard is lamenting his physical attributes which are shown here to be that of a deformed monster, unattractive to women and so badly made that dogs bark at him as he walks by them.
		Richard III was a seasoned soldier, a veteran not only of some of the principal battles of the Wars of the Roses, but also of the Scots Border Wars.
		Richard and the duke rode on to Stony Stratford.
	www.richard111.com /richard_iii__shakespeare.htm (10197 words)

	Amazon.com: Richard III: Books: William Shakespeare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Richard III is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays on the stage and has been adapted successfully for film.
		Richard III is the impersonation of ugliness and pure evil: he is a man both morally and physically malformed, who gives everything for the sake of a vain and insignificant moment of power.
		rickard iii does this one better and has four good scenes: the wooing of lady anne; the wooing of richard by buckinham to accept the crown; king richard suing queen elizabeth to persuade her daughter to marry the newly crowned regent: these three are pretty commonly accepted as the best scenes.
	www.amazon.com /Richard-III-William-Shakespeare/dp/0671722840 (2116 words)

	Richard III
		Richard III is a history that is a tragedy (or a tragedy that is a history).
		Richard acknowledges at the beginning of the play that he is an ugly, misshapen lump of flesh--a monster.
		Richard III fought against the first of the Tudor monarchs and was therefore labeled in the Tudor histories as a vicious usurper, and he duly appears in Shakespeare's plays as a murdering monster."--Chute, Marchette.
	www.cummingsstudyguides.net /xRichIII.html (2870 words)

	Amazon.com: Richard III: Video: Ian McKellen,Annette Bening,Jim Broadbent,Robert Downey Jr.,Nigel Hawthorne,Kristin ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		For example, in the play Richard woos his intended bride as she follows the casket containing her husband, who had been slain by Richard, who at one point ponders whether a woman had ever been wooed let alone won in such a manner.
		Richard's and Elizabeth's final spar over her daughter's hand takes place in the train-wagon serving as his field headquarters; and we actually see that same princess wed to his arch-enemy Richmond (Dominic West), King Henry VII-to-be and founder of the Tudor dynasty, with lines taken from Richmond's closing monologue.
		It is an exaggeration when the director tries to make Richard III appear similar to Hitler with the flags, his allies screaming, (not to mention the use of a closeup on his mustache), but perhaps the director just couldn't resist.
	www.amazon.com /Richard-III-Loncraine/dp/6304046006 (3075 words)

	Richard III play review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Richard III is one of William Shakespeare's most brilliant pseudo-historical inventions.
		Who knows, perhaps Richard III killed most of his family in his lust-filled desire because he was misunderstood, deformed and an outsider; in contrast to his shining brothers, who would be next in line for the crown.
		The depiction of Richard III, under Mikell Pickney's direction with Clay Smith in the title role, was original in its conception of a frantic, Charlie Chaplin-esque character whose deformity was played as both melodrama and physical comedy.
	www.alligator.org /edit/detours/01-spring/current/play.html (650 words)

	Richard III the play by William Shakespeare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The picture is 18th century and image displayed represents the essence of the play which, we hope, will bring to life a famous scene or character from the play.
		This is the last of the four Shakespeare plays to focus on the Wars of the Roses between the houses of York and Lancaster.
		Richard III (1452-1485) the last Plantagenet fought against the first of the Tudor monarchs and was therefore labelled in the Tudor histories as a vicious usurper, and he duly appears in Shakespeare's plays as a murdering monster.
	www.william-shakespeare.info /shakespeare-play-king-richard-iii.htm (820 words)

	The Richard III and Yorkist History Server (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Colley Cibber, The Tragical History of King Richard III as it is Acted at the Theatre Royal, eighteenth-century adaptation of Shakespeare's play used by most of the premier actors of the nineteenth century.
		Sharon D. Michalove, "The Reinvention of Richard III." Paper presented at the conference 'Reinventing the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Constructions of the Medieval and Early Modern Periods,' sponsored by the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, February 17, 1995, in Tempe, Arizona.
		Jeremy Potter, "Richard III's Historians: Adverse and Favourable Views" This text, by former chairman Jeremy Potter, was prepared for the Society's exhibition (1991), "To Prove a Villain," which was on display in the foyer of the Olivier Theatre in London during Sir Ian McKellen's production of Shakespeare's "Richard III", and later at Warwick Castle.
	www.r3.org /bookcase/index.html (1478 words)

	Richard III (1955 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Richard III is a 1955 British film adaptation of William Shakespeare's historical play Richard III.
		Richard has the young King's entourage arrested and executed, and forces the young King along with his younger brother (Andy Shine), to have a protracted stay at the Tower of London.
		Richard III was released in the UK on April 16, 1955, with Queen Elizabeth II attending the premiere.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_III_(1955_film) (3495 words)

	Richard III
		Richard turns the king against their other brother, the Duke of Clarence, who is imprisoned for treason, then arranges for Clarence's murder.
		Shakespeare's brilliant play does take liberties with historical fact: It has never been conclusively proved that Richard III was either a hunchback or the murderer of the two young princes imprisoned in the tower.
		The king who unseated Richard III was Henry VII--the grandfather of Elizabeth I, the ruling queen during Shakespeare's lifetime.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/1017538-richard_iii/about.php (482 words)

	The Richard III and Yorkist History Server (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In 1996, the year this section was established, we celebrated the Year of Three Richards, with two new and one very old film version released.
		Hypertext edition of the play, with timeline and links to notes from Charles D. Ross's biography of Richard III for those interested in comparing history to drama.
		Richard III: A Study in Historiographical Controversy, by Beth Marie Kosir
	www.r3.org /onstage/index.html (329 words)

	Richard III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Richard is a freak of nature, a self-proclaimed enemy to human kindness, bent upon destruction and the disruption of the commonwealth.
		Richard is able to succeed because those who would otherwise oppose him are easily duped (e.g., Clarence), at odds with each other (notably the female characters of the play), or harbor their own political ambitions (as in Buckingham's case).
		Richard III Summary, Richard III Essays, and Shakespeare Richard III Quotes, at All Shakespeare.
	www.geocities.com /othellopage/richard.html (181 words)

	Richard III Summary & Essays - William Shakespeare
		Richard III is the last of the four plays in Shakespeare's minor tetralogy of English history: it concludes a dramatic chronicle started by Henry VI: Part I and then moving through Henry VI: Part II and Henry VI: Part III.
		Culminating with the defeat of the evil King Richard III at the battle of Bosworth field in the play's final act, Richard III is a dramatization of actual historical events that concluded in the year 1485, when the rule of the Plantagenet family over England was replaced by the Tudor monarchy.
		Richard III as played by Edwin Booth (1872)
	www.enotes.com /richard (374 words)

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		Richard III (2000, Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan, Canada)
		The Richard III Society has many texts in their e-library including More's The History of King Richard III.
		Richard the third, third sonne to Richard duke of Yorke, and vncle to Edward the fift.
	ise.uvic.ca /Library/plays/R3.html (534 words)

	Richard III
		Graye, the kynges other brother by his mother, sayinge that hee with the lorde Marques his brother and the Lorde Riuers his vncle, hadde coumpassed to rule the kinge and the realme, and to sette variaunce among the states, and to subdewe and destroye the noble blood of the realm.
		And he thanked the Duke, and prayed the messenger to beare it to his Nephewe the lorde Richard with the same message for his comfort, who he thought had more nede of coumfort, as one to whom such aduersitie was straunge.
		As though princes as yonge as thei be, could not play but with their Peres, or children could not play but with their kyndred, wit[h] whom for the more part they agree much worse then wyth straungers.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~rbear/r3.html (15660 words)

	Richard III On Stage and Off (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It also examines Richard III in Shakespeare, in other dramatic vehicles, and in history.
		Laurence Olivier on the Historic Richard III
		Richard III, The Making of a Legend, by Roxane C. Murph (biography and introduction to the issues)
	www.r3.org /mckellen/index.html (278 words)

	AboutFilm.Com - Richard III (1995)
		Screenplay by Richard Loncraine and Ian McKellen, based on the play Richard III by Richard Eyre, adapted from Richard III by William Shakespeare.
		Standing in Richard's way are his elder brothers, King Edward IV and Clarence, as well as Edward's sons, who are all ahead of Richard in the line of succession.
		The real Richard did usurp the throne and was almost certainly responsible at least for the death of Edward's eldest son.
	www.aboutfilm.com /movies/r/richardiii.htm (713 words)

	INTIMAN Theatre: Richard III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Shakespeare’s great villain, the deformed Richard III is a glittering, seductive master of evil and malevolence.
		The last of the four Shakespeare plays that deal with the War of the Roses, Richard III has a rich and illustrious theatrical history.
		Bartlett Sher’s production, set in period, will bring this thrill ride of a play (never before seen at INTIMAN) to life with explosive energy and absolute fidelity to the grandeur of Shakespeare’s poetry.
	www.intiman.org /plays/richard.html (145 words)

	Richard III (play) Summary
		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 belongs a...
		Analyzes the psychology of the main charachter in Shakespeare's Richard III.
	www.bookrags.com /Richard_III_(play) (409 words)

	richard III
		It is a documentary about the complexities of Shakespeare, the performing of the play Richard III, and the ignorance of the average American regarding Shakespeare.
		Brennan's hypothesis is that Pacino's primary objective is to find meaning in Richard III, and the secondary objectives include creating an accessible version of the play the Mr.
		The exclusion of the Duchess of York also was an error; she is a vital character to the play, and it is a great part for an older actress.
	www.msu.edu /~miazgama/richard.htm (1652 words)

	Richard III (1955) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Plot Summary: Richard's military skills have helped to put his older brother Edward on the throne of England.
		Trivia: The failure of the film to earn a profit in the U.S. during its theatrical release, together with the untimely death of Alexander Korda, who had backed the production of "Richard III", effectively ended Olivier's dream of filming Shakespeare as a director.
		He is accorded the honor of being the greatest Macbeth of the 20th century, but he could never raise the financing to make the film after the financial failure of "Richard III".
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0049674 (549 words)

	Richard III (1995) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Goofs: Continuity: When Elizabeth is summoned to talk with Richard in the train car, her coat unbuttons between shots.
		Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for Richard III (1995)
		What are your 3 or 4 personal favorite Shakespeare plays and WHY?
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0114279 (382 words)

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