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The tragedy deals with history, betrayal
and violence but it focuses on human psicology. Richard is potraited as the worst king ever existed. He embodies the features of the villain, he's violent, self-concerned, cruel. The tragedy also deals with love: not a romantic love but a temporary passion linked to personal advantage. With his intelligence, Richard makes Lady Anne, a noblewoman, marry him, even if she knows that he has murdered her previous husband. He makes this because having married an important member of the York family would legitimates Richard's presence on the throne. Then he makes her wife be killed in order to marry his niece
Elizabeth.
Another feature which characterizes the
play is the presence of the supernatural.In the age where the plot is set people believed in supernatural creatures. In his last days of life, Richard is tormented by ghosts that remind him of all his innocent victims.
The play is influenced by Latin and Greek sources, indeed, following the Senecan tradition, crimes and blood scattering on the stage are an enjoyment for people.

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The characters in the Richard III opera are:
-RICHARD:Also called Duke of Gloucester and eventually crowned King Richard III. Richard is both the central character and the villain of the play. He is evil, corrupt, sadistic, and manipulative and will stop at nothing to become king. His intelligence, political brilliance, and use of language keep the audience enthralled and his subjects and rivals under his control.
-Buckingham:Richard’s right-hand man in his schemes to gain power. The duke of Buckingham is almost as amoral and ambitious as Richard himself.
-King Edward IV:The older brother of Richard and Clarence, and the king of England at the start of the play. Edward was involved in the Yorkists’ brutal overthrow of the Lancaster regime, but as king he is devoted to achieving a reconciliation among the various political factions of his reign. He is unaware that Richard attempts to thwart him at every turn.
-Clarence:He is the gentle, trusting brother born between Edward and Richard in the York family. Richard has Clarence murdered in order to get him out of the way. Clarence leaves two children, a son and a daughter.
-Queen Elizabeth:Wife of King Edward IV and mother of the two young princes (the heirs to the throne) and their older sister. After Edward's death, Queen Elizabeth (also called Lady Gray) is at the mercy of Richard. Richard rightly sees her as an enemy because she opposes his rise to power and because she is intelligent and quite strong-willed. Elizabeth is part of the Woodeville family; Dorset, Rivers and Gray are her allies at court.Rivers is Elizabeth’s brother, while Gray and Dorset are her sons from her first marriage. Richard eventually executes Rivers and Gray, but Dorset flees and survives.
-Anne:The young widow of Prince Edward, who was the son of the former king, Henry VI. Lady Anne hates Richard for the death of her husband, but for reasons of politics and for pleasure Richard persuades Anne to marry him.
-Duchess of York:she is Elizabeth’s mother-in-law, and she is very protective of Elizabeth and her children, who are the duchess’s grandchildren. She is angry with, and eventually curses, Richard for his heinous actions.
-Margaret:Widow of the dead King Henry VI, and mother of the slain Prince Edward. In medieval times, when kings were deposed, their children were often killed to remove any threat from the royal line of descent but their wives were left alive because they were considered harmless. Margaret was the wife of the king before Edward, the Lancastrian Henry VI, who was subsequently deposed and murdered (along with their children) by the family of King Edward IV and Richard. She hates both Richard and the people he is trying to get rid of, all of whom were complicit in the destruction of the Lancasters.
-The Princes:The two young sons of King Edward IV and h Elizabeth, their names are actually Prince Edward and the young duke of York, but they are often referred to collectively. Agents of Richard murder these boys Richard’s nephews in the Tower of London. Young Prince Edward is the rightful heir to the throne
-Young Elizabeth:the former Queen Elizabeth’s daughter. Young Elizabeth becomes a pawn in political power-brokering, and is promised in marriage at the end of the play to Richmond, the Lancastrian rebel leader, in order to unite the warring houses of York and Lancaster.

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Ralph Fiennes plays Richard III: 'I can add colours to the chameleon'

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Ralph Fiennes plays Richard III: 'I can add colours to the chameleon'

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Ammendola Rosa,
Maggio Damiano,
Leone Dario,
Girone Flora.

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Richard, duke of Gloucester;
he is one of the most wicked villain who ever appeared on a stage.
He governs through fear and force.
He limps because he is born with different deformities, his arm is curved and he has an irregular walk, which is not ideal in the Renaissance’s concept of beauty, and to add to all of that he had a sick and twisted mind.
Like most of Shakespeare villains they liked to present their most evil thoughts to the audience.
Richard is obviously a villain—he almost single-handedly generates all of the evil and violence in the play. But Richard III makes us reconsider our definition of what a hero is because, as evil as he is, Richard is certainly the play’s protagonist, and that makes us have empathy for him.
The only thing that makes Richard content is being evil, not even love can help him, especially after his brother Edward took the throne of England.
In fact he is plotting to make his two older brothers, Clarence and Edward, hate each other.
Richard told Edward a fake prophecy that said that someone close, which had as first letter of his name a G, was going to kill his children, and Clarance first name is actually George, after lots of convincing from Richard’s part that the other brother was going to kill Edward’s children, Edward gets so worried that he gets his brother Clarance imprisoned, (which fault was only to be named George), Richard tells Clarance it was queen Elizabeth’s fault that he was going to prison, and that he felt true pity for his brother and he even promises that he will help him.
Richard even finds out that king Edward was deadly sick, which was the best type of information for him.
With Clarance in the tower and the king not being in good health, he is one step away from the throne.
The only thing that could keep him from becoming king would be Clarence being set free, so to prevent that he make up some lies of things Clarence did so he could get him executed.
That’s just one of the many things he did to get even remotely close to the throne, and even just this shows how much of a twisted person he is, and that to get something he wants he will do anything in his power to make it happen.
But in the end, Henry of Richmond raises an army, kills Richard in battle, and becomes King Henry VII.

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Richard Duke of Gloucester feels and deep hate for his Brother Edward, King of England. To consume thirst  of Power, he tries to take the Throne, even if he isn't the legitimate successor. Because he is preceded by his Brothers George. With  help of his friend Harry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham he succeded to persuade the nobles to be the worth man to take the Throne. Richard exeterminated all his family included grandchildrens and his ally, to have no obstacles. For is horrendous crimes he is forced to face his coscience in fact ghosts will appear in his dream, of all people that killed and he found himself to face Henry VIII in a fight body by body in which he will die. Shakespeare wants to emphaise Richard's soul and his coscience conditioned by a savage wickedness that he  consumes only through  unforgivable crimes. Richard embodies  the tragedy phisic and moral of a man who cannot accept to be cast aside because of deformity, symbol of fragility by he can't escape and that he bring him to face the wraith of his coscience.

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Richard III is the last of four plays in Shakespeare's minor tetralogy which concludes the dramatic story of English history close to the period of 1485 after the war between the two families of Lancaster and York and the definitive seizure of power by the Tudor (war of the 2 roses), begun with Henry VI (1° - 2° - 3° part).

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The political context constitutes only the background of the drama, the author's interest is in fact to highlight the character - Richard - his psyche and his soul, both fueled by a ruthless and insane wickedness that finds satisfaction only in commission of heinous crimes.