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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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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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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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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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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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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A perfect example of this is in The Second Shepard's Play where Mak and Mak's wife, Gill, imitate the glorious scene of Christ's birth in the manger by putting the stolen lamb in a basket and pretending ! ... We see it again with more force in Gorboduc when the King cannot restore his kingdom from his sons. ... We see the culmination of the destroyed safety of the Medieval world in Shakespeare's plays including Hamlet, Macbeth, Richard III, and King Lear. ... In Act IV, Scene 6, we see Lear dressed in wild berries and donning a crown made from weeds -- Lear has begun to ...

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In the article by Ralph Farmmolino, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, the fraternity Phi Kappa Sigma was being punished for having a printed t-shirt with "a beach scene with two Mexican caricatures, one in sombrero and serape, holding what appear to be beer bottles " as the image. ... Lawrence III, a professor of law at the Stanford University Law School; and finally Richard Delgado and David H. ... This argument states that society would be better off if no anti-racial laws are put into play because like a valve, it is better to let steam off every now and then to prevent tension from bui...

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Almost every aspect of this country today, would not be the same if it was not for the African American leaders that stood up in their communities during the mid 1900's and preached words of a United States that was free from oppression against people of color. ... Children that came from white families and were white themselves would attend school with only white children. ... Rosa Parks was an elderly woman on her way home from work. ... According to the bus company records, about 90 percent African Americans who usually rode the buses to and from work joined the boycott and found other...

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Richard Yates, Sr., one of the amazed people who heard the speech, said this. ... Most of America liked Lincoln as a change from all the politicians they were used to. ... Booth learned from Harry Ford that later that night President Lincoln and General Ulysses S. ... with many shouts of applause from the audience. ... During Act III Scene II of Our American Cousin, John Wilkes Booth made his way up to the President's Box. ...

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Tacitus followed more or less the pattern of Thucydides but with a brooding moral interest in the decay of Roman society. 6 Medieval Historiography The concern with separating fact from fiction and legend often disappeared in medieval historiography. ... The other was the chronicle, ranging from the crude and simple annals of local monasteries to more orderly and organized accounts such as those of Saxo Grammaticus, Otto of Freising, Roger of Wendover, and Matthew of Paris. ... Medieval Islamic historians such as al-Tabari and al-Masudi wrote histories of great scope, often employin...

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