Richard III William Shakespeare

Effective oratory skills are crucial tools every true leader and military frontrunner must possess. In Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Richard III, the reader is introduced to the two opposing leaders, Richard and Richmond, who possess distinct...

Power struggles are a defining feature in many of William Shakespeare’s stories. Titus Andronicus, Richard III, and Julius Caesar are three prominent examples of such stories, each depicting a powerful protagonist and their conflicts with others...

Few would likely disagree with Emily Sloan-Pace’s claim about the practically non-existent role of women in Shakespeare’s history plays: “Though women regularly assume starring roles in the comedies and tragedies, the history plays remain largely...

Given that Shakespeare’s primary motivation for writing Richard III was less fueled by a desire to accurately depict the objective truth regarding the title character’s short-lived tenure as England’s monarch, than it was by the intention of...

The resonances and dissonances between Shakespeare Richard III and Al Pacino’s Looking For Richard reveal that composers are responding to the contextual influences of their time. Shakespeare’s Richard III is heavily influenced by the value...

Buckingham largely acts as a foil to Richard of Gloucester throughout much of Richard III. Both hubristic in their own ways, the pair are clearly two of a kind when it comes to their mastery of rhetoric and persuasion, having little difficulty in...

Throughout history, women have often been characterised as subordinate to men, their thoughts, feelings, and actions labelled as excessive or insignificant. In Shakespeare’s Richard III this phenomenon is subverted, his representation of Margaret...