In what ways does a comparative study accentuate the distinctive contexts of Richard III and Looking for Richard? ... By studying the connections between Shakespeare's play Richard III and Pacino's adaptation "Looking for Richard", the change in context and respective values are made apparent. Shakespeare's constructs Richard III as propaganda in a strict political and religious society during the Elizabethan era. ... Therefore instead, he puts emphasis on the scene before the war, where cut-away shots of Richard's guilty acts perturb him on the effect of his choices and ac...

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Richard III is an intense exploration of the psychology of evil, and that exploration is centred on and in Richard's mind. ... This makes Richard seem like he lacks confidence in himself which gives him more sympathy from the audience and this, in a way, encourages him to carry on with his monologue. ... Two of Richard's most significant characteristics in the first two scenes of Act 1 are that he is extremely intelligent and he uses his intelligence to become highly manipulative and he shows his manipulative nature the most in scene ii of Act 1 when speaking with Lady Anne. ... Sha...

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Explication of Act 1, Scene 2 of Shakespeare's Richard III O, Curséd be the hand that made these holes. 15. ... Curséd the blood that let this blood from hence. ... In 1.2 of Shakespeare's Richard III, Lady Anne changes from hatred to consideration of Richard's "love.... The prophetic power of Anne's words is particularly notable when she talks to herself before Richard appears in this scene. ... The toad reflects both how Richard may appear to be ugly visually but also be venomous from a simple touch. ...

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Richard the Duke of Gloucester and eventually crowned King Richard III is deformed in body and twisted in mind. ... The opening scene has Richard addressing the audience through a soliloquy. ... The audience of Richard III experiences a complex, ambiguous, and highly changeable relationship with Richard. ... In Act I scene iii, Margaret foreshadows Richard's end by cursing him to mistake his friends for enemies, as he ultimately does with Buckingham, and his enemies for friends, as he does with Stanley. ... The forces driving Richard have always been mysterious, and here he seems to all...

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Consequently, King Richard III & Looking for Richard are connected through their purpose & individual context, which offer an enhanced understanding and enrichment of each text. ... Richard is evidently a key character and ultimately the crucial link connecting King Richard III & Looking for Richard. ... The language of Shakespeare connects both King Richard III & Looking for Richard, enriching the significance of each & enabling both to provide continuous meaning for a range of contexts. ... The textual medium of King Richard III & Looking for Richard is a reflection of the popular culture o...

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In the first scene, where Bolingbroke accuses Mowbray of killing Gloucester, Richard plays a major part in the action and at first look, gives the fascade of being a man of action because of his handling of the Mowbray-Bolingbroke situation. ... However, in Act 1 scene 3, Richard's order for Mowbray and Bolingbroke's lives to answer their blame was only to fuel Richard's own desire to be the centre of attention; it was his showman quality that leads him to do this, not his ability to take action when a situation that required good leadership skills arose. ... "Our lands, our li...

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Shakespeare's Play, Richard III According to William Shakespeare's presentation, Richard III in the eponymous play is a man driven by vengeance, ambition, and a thirst for power. ... The unattractive physique used by Shakespeare makes Richard III look like an anti-hero, and as a result, other characters and the audience repelled him. ... The bad character of Richard III was seen when he plotted and succeeded in eliminating three heirs to the throne before him, as well as King Edward IV himself (Shakespeare & Crowther 85). ... The scene and conditions describing George's persec...

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The sly Shylock cited the allusion from Genesis for his purpose. ... In The Merchant of Venice, Act III, Sc. 1 SHYLOCK How now, Tubal, what news from Genoa? ... From this, we can know Herod was a bad king. ... Another example was found in Richard II, Act IV, Sc. 1, when Richard was threaten by Bolingbroke, he said that his official were Judases angrily. ... Richard's flatterers had given him a Judas kiss. ...

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Unlike Shakespeare's great villains, such as Iago in Othello and Richard III in Richard III, Macbeth is never comfortable in his role as a criminal. ... Act 3 Scenes 1 In the royal palace at Forrest, Banquo paces and thinks about the coronation of Macbeth and the prophecies of the weird sisters. ... The brothers have fled from Scotland and may be plotting against his crown. Act I, scene iii On the heath near the battlefield, thunder rolls and the three witches appear. ... At last he shakes himself from his reverie and the group departs for Forres. ...

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Richard M. ... His parents named him Richard after the Richard the Lionhearted. ... This wouldn't normally mean a lot but during this time there was a lot of fear of a World War III because of the Cold War in Russia. ... As president, Richard Nixon moved to isolate himself from the administrative operations of the White House. ... Rather than questioning whether it was a good idea to seal himself off from his cabinet and Congress as well as from the public at large, Nixon seemed to enjoy it. ...

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Having been introduced to almost the full cast of the play in the first scene, we can clearly understand the intentions of most of the characters. ... This particular scene which happens at the opening scene of the play is imperative in judging Roderigo. ... He is the most manipulative, heinous villain who plans all of the sneaky plots and from the second scene of the book, appears to be the most persuasive and in control character. ... Shakespeare uses the exact same personality traits for Iago as he did for King Richard in Richard III and from experience with that play I believe Iago to be t...

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Fact From Fiction The practices and beliefs of the pagan earth based religions have been demonized for centuries thru literature. ... This is expressed in scene III of act I when Macbeth and his companion Banquo happen upon three witches. ... From descriptions like this people have formed the idea that all witches are ugly old hags. ... In scene I of act IV the following incantation is spoken by the Third Witch as they throw ingredients into their cauldron. ... From the words of Dr. ...

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However, although shorter than Zefferelli's effort, the inclusion of the text's political aspect (in Fortinbras ) and the first scene (although reordered), excised from the 1990 film, leads to a far more effective, rounded and realised version. ... A soliloquy taken from Act 2 Scene 2, which originally comes during the "fishmonger" dialogue, powerfully introduces Ethan Hawke's characterisation of a maladjusted film-student Hamlet. ... Reordered, the ghost scenes have a different effect. ... With obvious influence from the stylistically modern Richard III (1996) and the audaciou...

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sidebar GREAT WORKS OF LITERATURE From Richard III English dramatist William Shakespeare portrayed Richard III, king of England from 1483 to 1485, as bitter, deformed, and conniving. Scholars generally agree that Shakespeare villainized Richard to some degree for the enjoyment of Shakespeare's Tudor audience: Richard III was the last king of the house of York before the accession of the powerful and prosperous Tudor dynasty. In the famous opening lines of Shakespeare's Richard III (1592-1593?), Richard, then duke of Gloucester, sarcastically describes the quiet reign of his el...

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Sir Richard Vernon soon enters the scene and reveals news that Hal is on his way to attack Shrewsbury with seven thousand men. ... Hotspur begins his soliloquy, almost interrupting Sir Richard Vernon's praise of Hal. ... He vows not to leave the battle scene until a "corse", or dead person, falls to the ground. ... A similar random rhyme can also be found in Act I scene III where Hotspur become easily excited at the tales of Worcester. ... In conclusion, Hotspur's feelings and emotions are evident from this specific soliloquy. ...

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His female victims ranged in age from six to over eighty. ... The Stalker fled in a stolen orange Toyota, but not before being spotted by a sharp-eyed local teenager, James Romero III. ... A match came up almost instantly using the new system: a twenty-five-year-old car thief name Ricardo "Richard" Levya Munoz Ramirez. ... Four years later, Sir Edward Richard Henry published Classification and Uses of Finger Prints. ... Police departments throughout the nation could now share fingerprints collected from crime scenes, suspects, and victims. ...

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Three other Shakespeare plays have ghosts as characters: Julius Caesar Macbeth and Richard III. ... In Act III scene 3 Hamlet becomes convinced that Claudius murdered his father. ... When Hamlet behaved crazily, his eyes were extremely wide and darted from side to side. ... In Act III scene 5 where Hamlet, during his famous soliloquy, compares sleep with death. ... In Act III scene 3 Hamlet says, "That his soul may be as damn'd and black As hell, whereto it goes." ...

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It also explains what happens in an act beforehand because the scenes switch around from place to place, and it can get confusing. ... At the end of the prologue to Act II, the Chorus informs the audience that the scene is about to shift from London to Southampton, and then later to France. The Chorus in Act III explains for the lapse in time that has taken place. ... In act III, help out with the plot using imagery to help the audience to picture events taking place. The prologue to act IV sets the scene up for the battle. ...

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It also explains what happens in an act beforehand because the scenes switch around from place to place, and it can get confusing. ... At the end of the prologue to Act II, the Chorus informs the audience that the scene is about to shift from London to Southampton, and then later to France. The Chorus in Act III explains for the lapse in time that has taken place. ... In act III, help out with the plot using imagery to help the audience to picture events taking place. The prologue to act IV sets the scene up for the battle. ...

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John Shakespeare was a son of Richard Shakespeare, a rich and respected farmer. ... One document, which dates from 28th November 1582, has been preserved, from which we can see that he got married to Anna Hattaway, a girl from Stratford. ... "The age of studying" (1588-1599): comedies: Love's Labors Won, The Suffering of Two Noblemen from Verona, A Midsummer Night's Dream; tragedies: Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet; historical acts: "Henry IV" in three parts, "Richard III", Richard II". 2. ... The Nation even enjoyed partly in watching this horrible scene: burnings at the st...

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Finally, German legends were full of heroes and heroines like Hagen, Siegfried, and Brunhild, who were so superbly depicted in Richard Wagner's opera, the Nibelungenlied. ... Great warriors like Frederick III inspired the creation of 18th and 19th century Prussia, laying the roots of 20th century Germany. ... Their customs made them stand out from other Germans and many Germans believed that Jews had more devotion to their religion than to their state. ... Stevens 4 Not only did Germany's culture help Hitler come to power, but also Germany's social and economic scene in the 1930...

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Reference to the OED stems from the need to demonstrate the conceptual differences that exist between present day and Renaissance understanding of homosexuality. ... And therefore as individuate [Masten earlier demonstrated that individuate in Renaissance culture means indivisible] as man from himself'. ... We are first introduced to the two in Act II Scene I and the scene is one of a parting of the ways but the language used emphasises that it is an emotional parting. ... This distinction though is not so easily made later on in the scene. ... We are witnessing a scene of strong emotion...

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In the very beginning scenes of Act one we see in the dialogue the relationship between Iago and Roderigo. ... In Act four scene two, we hear Desdemona's pleas to Iago, of how she should win back her husband. ... Especially with those of Iago in scenes 1 from act three, where the form changes to Blank Verse, the tension is instantly kept; we receive yet more instalments of Iago's wicked plan which keeps us on our toes all the way through to the end. ... Other examples of how the language may appear to be "outdated" is in Act one scene one. ... I don't think that it is a mistake ...

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Most of what is known about Shakespeare comes from church and legal documents. ... Anne, the daughter of Richard Hathaway, was twenty six and pregnant at the time of her marriage to William. William and Anne resided Shottery about one mile from the city of Stratford. ... Led by actor Richard Burbage, The Lord Chamberlain's Men was a well-known, albeit new, theatre company in London. ... The group averaged two plays per year and Burbage played the starring roles such as Richard III, Hamlet, Othello and Lear. ...

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Sir Edward Richard Henry revised Galton's observations, and a new classification system was created. ... III. ... The pattern is one in which one or more ridges enter from one side of the print, curve around, and exit from the same side. 2. ... Dusting for prints is the most common way to bring fingerprints into view at the crime scene. 2. ... If they are at the crime scene, they crystals are put into a fuming gun. ...

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