In this circa 1754 illustration, two women scold Richard III in Shakespeare's play. Universal History Archive/Getty Images) Written around 1592, William Shakespeare’s play “Richard III” follows the ...
New Haven’s Elm Shakespeare Company is the grandest and most popular of all the state’s outdoor Shakespeare companies, drawing tens of thousands of people to its shows each year and staging the plays ...
Richard of Gloucester is a walking contradiction–wholly appealing yet slimy and sinister. An absolute menace while letting the audience know what he’s going to do, goes off and does the thing and then ...
Elle While’s production fair speeds along, too, cutting a play that comes in the top five for length in the Shakespeare rankings – with a title role by some metrics the longest in the canon, ...
It is a bold creative choice to cut the line “A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse” from Richard III, but it’s far from the most notable decision in Shakespeare’s Globe’s latest staging of ...
Richard III is one of those historical figures that everybody seems to know the name of. Thanks in large part to his ...
LONDON — Britain’s King Richard III was immortalized with the Shakespeare line, “A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse.” Now state-of-the-art technology has revealed what it may have sounded like ...
Yvonne Morley-Chisholm was on an annual retreat in England in 2014 when she had something of a eureka moment. "We were meeting in the city of Leicester, and I thought, 'Leicester, Leicester — oh, didn ...