Richard III - A Play for our Time
"I am determined to prove a villain"

Can you imagine a man, who is unscrupulous enough to kill innocent children, who woos the wives of his enemies and who strives for power with evil deeds and cruel crimes? No, you can't ? Well, Shakespeare could. He created an evil perpetrator for his play after the model of the reputation of the historic king.

But why did Richard behave as Shakespeare described?
We cannot make a complete psychoanalysis, however we assure you to give some deeper insight into his psyche and reveal
 

HOMEPAGE	Shakespeare's 'Richard III'
PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH	Richard III and women
	Richard III the multi-faced villain
	Physical and psychological deformity
	Richard's family background
HISTORICAL APPROACH	Richard III in the mirror of centuries
	Justification of Tudor dynasty?
	History in Shakespeare's Richard III
	Guilty or not guilty?
POLITICAL APPROACH	Richard III - a modern dictator?
	Richard III the Machiavellian villain?
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