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 ...

“Now is the winter of our discontent.” The very first line of Richard III hits a little too close to home for UChicago students in the middle of winter quarter. And it is not the only somber truth in ...

When a play’s leading politician begins by declaring that he is “determined to prove a villain,” it’s best to believe him. As the bodies pile up in King’s Crown Shakespeare Troupe’s “Richard III,” ...

The Royal Shakespeare Company has cast a disabled actor to play the “deformed, unfinish’d” king for the first time. The choice has been hailed as a landmark moment. By Alex Marshall ...

LONDON, April 26 (Reuters) - When actor Adjoa Andoh read William Shakespeare's "Richard III" as a child, she was struck by how he was treated. "I'm sort of 9 or 10 ... I was outraged in the sort of ...

Even if you have never seen a production of William Shakespeare‘s “Richard III” you know and probably adore some version of him. The Bard’s villain of villains echoes throughout entertainment, ...

What does it mean to see the "rudely stamped... deformed, unfinished" body of Richard III on stage? Even Shakespeare's contemporaries didn't quite know how to answer this question. The prevailing view ...

A production at the Shakespeare’s Globe theater faced criticism because a nondisabled actor plays the scheming king. But disputes like these miss the point, our critic writes. By Houman Barekat The ...

Richard III is one of those historical figures that everybody seems to know the name of. Thanks in large part to his ...

Carlyle Brown’s THE AFRICAN COMPANY PRESENTS RICHARD III draws its power from an extraordinary yet often overlooked chapter in American theater history. In 1821, amid the hostile racial climate of ...