Richard III

Richard III Criticism

• Richard III (Vol. 52)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism: Morality
    • Shakespearean Studies In Shame
    • Richard III and the Spirit of Capitalism
    • Shakespeare's Demonic Prince
    • Shakespeare's King Richard III and the Problematics of Tudor Bastardy
  • Criticism: Sexuality
    • Thriftless Ambition: The Tyrants of Shakespeare and Jonson
    • Belaboring the Obvious: Reading the Monstrous Body in King Richard III
    • Engendering the Tragic Audience: The Case of Richard III
    • Performing Persecution
  • Criticism: Theatricality
    • Kings Games: Stage Imagery and Political Symbolism in Richard III
    • Profane Icon: The Throne Scene of Shakespeare's Richard III
    • ‘Determined to prove a villain’: Theatricality in Richard III
    • Richard III: Tonypandy in the Twentieth Century
  • Criticism: Persuasion
    • The Wooing of Lady Anne: A Psychological Inquiry
    • Conflicting Paradigms and the Progress of Persuasion in Richard III
  • ‘This Son of Yorke’: Textual and Literary Criticism Again
  • Further Reading
• Richard III (Vol. 62)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
  • Criticism: Dreams, Prophesies, And Curses
    • Dream and Plot
    • Plots and Prophecies—The Tragedy of King Richard the Third
  • Criticism: Female Characters
    • Richard III, Unhistorical Amplifications: The Women's Scenes and Seneca
    • 'Foul Wrinkled Witch': Superstition, Skepticism, and Margaret of Anjou in Shakespeare's Richard III
  • Criticism: Religious Elements
    • 'Unvalued Jewels': The Religious Perspective in Richard III
    • Richard III and the Reformation
    • Last Words and Last Things: St. John, Apocalypse, and Eschatology in Richard III
  • Criticism: Richard
    • Shakespeare's Halle of Mirrors: Play, Politics, and Psychology in Richard III
    • Discourse and Decorum in the First Act of Richard III
    • Richard III: Bonding the Audience
    • A Case of Unfair Proportions: Philosophy in Literature
  • Further Reading
• Richard III (Vol. 73)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
    • Richard III.
    • Introduction to King Richard III
  • Criticism: Character Studies
    • ‘Dispaire and Dye’: The Ultimate Temptation of Richard III
    • Queen Margaret in Henry VI and Richard III.
    • Of a Monstrous Body
  • Criticism: Production Reviews
    • Richard III on Film: The Subversion of the Viewer
    • Vivid Negativity: Richard Loncraine's Richard III.
    • Of Kings and Witches
    • Review of Richard III
    • Do We Like Him Now?
  • Criticism: Themes
    • Back to the Future: Subjectivity and Anamorphosis in Richard III.
    • Introduction to The Tragedy of King Richard III
  • Further Reading
• Richard III (Vol. 84)
  • Introduction
  • Criticism: Overviews And General Studies
  • Criticism: Character Studies
    • The Wooing of Elizabeth
    • Richard III: That Excellent Grand Tyrant of the Earth
  • Criticism: Production Reviews
    • Review of Richard III
    • Epic Conclusion
    • A Breath of Fresh Air
  • Criticism: Themes
    • ‘Was Ever Woman in This Humour Won?’: Love and Loathing in Shakespeare's Richard III.
    • Corporeality and the Opening of Richard III
    • Witchcraft and the Theater in Richard III
    • ‘Dirty’ Amens: Devotion, Applause, and Consent in Richard III.
  • Further Reading
• A Monster Great Deformed: The Unruly Masculinity of Richard III
• Richard III (Vol. 39)
  • Introduction
  • Overviews
    • Richard III
    • The Kings
    • History, Character and Conscience in Richard III
  • Kingship
    • The Tradition of Fame and the Arts of Policy: Richard III and 1 Henry IV
    • Machiavel and Yorkist Knight: Richard III
    • 'Accursed womb, the bed of death': Women and the Succession in Richard III
    • Shakespeare's King Richard III and the Problematics of Tudor Bastardy
  • Language
    • The Villain as Rhetorician in Shakespeare's Richard III
    • The Invention of Richard of Gloucester
  • Characterization
    • Richard III as Punch
    • Shakespeare's Trickster-Kings: Richard III and Henry V
  • Further Reading