Essays on Richard Iii

Through their intertextual connections Shakespeare’s historical play Richard III and Al Pacino’s docudrama ‘Looking for Richard’ provide profound explorations of human being’s lust for power and the depths to which some people will sink in order to achieve and maintain the spoils of their ambition….

Modern criticism of dreams in Shakespearean drama, such as Frankie Rubinstein and Kay Stockholder, often focus upon psychoanalysis, where therapy investigates the unconscious mind to discover repressed fears and brings them to the conscious mind. Several critics have observed the importance of Shakespeare’s works as…

In the play, Richard III, by William Shakespeare, there is a unique dynamic between men and women, concerning the role of gender. While this is one of Shakespeare’s history plays, the theme of gender is important to analyze because of the time period that this…

Whereas with the Princes in the Tower the events are questioned rather than motivations, it is the opposite with Richard’s usurpation in 1483. The death of Edward IV left an atmosphere of dangerous uncertainty. His heir apparent, Edward V, was in the hands of the…

‘A play so preoccupied with memory and the past’ Paul Prescott (‘Richard III’ a guide to the text and its theatrical life 2006) How far and in what ways is this true of Act One? In Act One it would be true to state that…

Mother Warrior and Sorceress In the realm of Shakespeare, few women are given the opportunity to exhibit any traditional form of power. Such is the case of Richard III, the telling of a psychopathic king who uses murder and deceit to become king. When he…

The Foreshadow in the Death of Richard III in Shakespeare Shakespeare’s tragedy of Richard III is a play where death is one of the central themes. It is therefore essential that Shakespeare makes this theme obvious to the audience even before characters die, and his…