Richard III – Shakespeare

The Play:

    Read:

• Richard III

    Watch:

• Richard III - BBC, 1983, Dir. Jane Howell

• "Richard III" from The War of the Roses - English Shakespeare Company, 1990, Starring Andrew Jarvis

    Listen:

• Richard III from Folger Shakespeare Library

General Resources:

     William Shakespeare

• "A Partial Chronology" 

• "Shakespeare's Life" by Ernst Hongmann

    Richard III

• Timeline

• "Richard III" from The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare

• "Introduction" by Annaliese Connolly

• Resources from Folger Shakespeare Library

Media:

  Lectures:

• Richard III - Dr. Gideon Rappaport from Shakespeare Real Take

• "500 Years of Richard III, with Jeffrey Wilson and Thomas Varga" from New Swan Shakespeare

• Richard III - Professor Andrew Hadfield from MASSOLIT (requires a paid subscription)

Podcasts:

• "Richard III" from Approaching Shakespeare, a University of Oxford podcast

• "Shakespeare's Richard III" from Gone Medieval

• "History, History Plays, and Historiography: Shakespeare's Richard III" from Classic English Literature Podcast

• "Guns and (war of the) Roses. The irresistible rise of Shakespeare's Richard III" from Secret Life of Books

Videos:

• "Richard III: The first photo of an English king" from BBC Global

• "Richard III - The King Under the Car Park with Mathew Morris" from University of Leicester's Archaeological Services

Online Articles:

• • "Bones Under Parking Lot Belonged to Richard III" by John F. Burns for NY Times

  • "Crimes Alleged by Shakespeare" by Matthew Lewis for Richard III Society

  • "Richard III: what’s it all about?" by Dr. Will Tosh for Shakespeare's Globe

  • "Shakespeare’s Richard III - Myth or Reality?" by Waseem Ahmed for Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

  • "Why Shakespeare's Richard III became a controversial villain" by Tracey Sinclair for BBC

Critical Articles:

• • "An Essay by Harold Bloom" from Yale's The Annotated Shakespeare

  • "Filming Shakespeare's history: three films of Richard III" - H. R. Coursen

  • "Historical legacy and fiction: the poetical reinvention of King Richard III" - Marie Hélène Besnault and Michel Bitot

  • "History, Character and Conscience in Richard III" - Richard P. Wheeler

  • "Honeyed Toads: Sinister Aesthetics in Shakespeare's Richard III" - Joel Elliot Slotkin

  • "A Monster Great Deformed: The Unruly Masculinity of Richard III" - Ian Frederick Moulton