The play's the thing...
Advantages: Fascinating modern adaptation
Disadvantages: Too many cuts
There are many authoritative versions of Shakespeare's plays, and they are among the more published works in the history of the world. One can get small paperback versions a la Penguin press or part of large, annotated versions like the Riverside Shakesp ...
 frkurt 01.02.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Richard III - William Shakespeare
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'Subtle, false and treacherous'
Advantages: Fascinatingly evil central character
Disadvantages: Not as much depth as some of Will's other plays
Richard III is probably one of the most overtly evil of all of Shakespeare’s protagonists. The play opens with him declaring to the audience his conscious decision to be ‘a villain.’ By contrast, characters such as Macbeth seem almost ...
Amadahn 17.03.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Richard III - William Shakespeare
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richard
Advantages: great read
Disadvantages: hard to understand if you are new to old english
...I have just read this in English for my literature coursework on shakespeare. Heres the beginning of my coursework. This will explain a lot to you. William Shakespeare wrote the play Richard III in 1591. Commonly known as a history play, although it c ...
nicky-andreyah 17.12.2008 · Read full review
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Brotherly Love
Advantages: It's fairly easy to follow, interesting themes to be explored, based on well-known Oedipus
Disadvantages: Not a lot of action, religious/mythology references may pass you by
...Greek drama wasn’t like most modern stories, for being based on legends everyone knew who the characters were, and at least the main gist of the plot. I’m sure most of you know Oedipus killed his father and married his mother, even if you haven’t seen or ...
a-true-ben 02.08.2004 · Read full review
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True Grit
Advantages: Good parts for all three actors
Disadvantages: Can be a bit long winded at times
So many female actors complain that there are no good parts for them to play. Well, ladies, look no further than Paulina from Ariel Dorfman's "Death And The Maiden".
Set in an unspecified South American counrty after the fall of a dictatorship, two peo ...
Kozinski 23.12.2000 · Read full review
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Review of Death and the Maiden - Ariel Dorfman
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