Premium Content Speculation on Richard III's Malignity
By Emily Flynn - May 19, 2001
'Distortum vultum sequitur distortio morum.'
[Distortion of character follows a distorted countenance.] --Thomas More
Shakespeare's Richard III from the so-titled play shares the unsettling characteristic of being expressly "determined to prove a villain" (I.i.30) with other Shakespeare creations, most notably, Iago of Othello, and Aaron the Moor of…
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