Richard III (No Fear Shakespeare) by SparkNotes Editors, SparkNotes Staff

Richard III (No Fear Shakespeare) SparkNotes Editors, SparkNotes Staff ebook
ISBN: 9781411401020
Format: pdf
Page: 343
Publisher: Sterling

Example of Richard III (our Shakespeare selection for the upcoming school year). I have seen Ian McKellan's Richard III and although I'm normally not the biggest fan of Shakespeare modernizations, I thought it works quite well with this adaptation. My Method for Using No Fear Shakespeare. Richard has no nature, no character, other than shameless and pitiless greed and ambition. On his calculated, slithering and venomous plunge to Like Macbeth, the murderous Richard, Duke of Gloucester, finds himself so steeped in blood that even when he has gained the prize, guilt and fear rob him of its rewards. Not readers - an audience is a part of a present piece of theater, whether that's Kevin Spacey limping at BAM as Richard III, or Timmy Smith reading Hamlet's sixth soliloquy aloud in class. Early reports that speak of curvature of the spine in this skeleton seem to support the savage picture drawn by Shakespeare of a man bent in mind and body. No sooner has Edward appeared, declared his readiness for death and registered his shock at his brother Clarence's murder, than he exits. In the end the scythe of retribution cuts him down as well. All that's lacking to make a snake of James Ridge's Richard III, in his coiled and hissing performance as Shakespeare's ultimate anti-hero with American Players Theatre here, is fangs. This will make no difference to his reputation: whether or not he killed the princes in the Tower or was the rightful king of England will be unchanged by these findings, but those of us who cannot help but admire Richard will be glad his body was found and now can be laid to rest. Shakespeare uses Richard to ellaborate on the cause of that fear and the characteristics of those who instill it. When the lights dimmed – there is no curtain in the Festival Theatre at Stradford as they perform on a thrust stage similar to the kind used in Shakespeare's time – and then came up again to reveal the actor playing Richard (Brian Bedford), Unfortunately, the Duke of Richmond (Dominic West), who Richard fears because of a prophesy naming him a future king of England, escapes his nets and flees to France where he raises an army to help him overthrow Richard. The DNA tests performed by the University of Leicester confirmed every early modernist's darkest fears that Richard III was, indeed, the hunchback William Shakespeare depicted. No Fear Shakespeare - on one page we find Shakespeare's Gobbledygook, while on the next page we find the Gobbledygook translated into Plain English. So, since that Twitter-sation last week, a lot of blogs, journals, even publications have been talking about - even defending - texts like SparkNotes "No Fear" Shakespeare and the Cliffs Notes cartoons (7min parodies that reduce R&J's wooing to " OMG, you are totes hot!"). Read the context and plot overview on the Spark Notes website.