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Richard III Shakespeare William Playwright Migdalia Cruz breathes new life into Richard III.Nuyorican playwright Migdalia Cruz unpacks and repositions Shakespeare's Richard III for a…
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Richard III Shakespeare William
Playwright Migdalia Cruz breathes new life into Richard III.Nuyorican playwright Migdalia Cruz unpacks and repositions Shakespeare's Richard III for a twenty-first-century audience. In the Wars of the Roses, his Catholic belief in his country led to his slaughter at Bosworth's Field by his Protestant rivals. She presents a contemporary English verse translation, faithfully keeping the poetry, the puns, and the politics of the play intact, with a rigorous and in-depth examination of Richard III--the man, the king, the outsider--who is still the only English king to have died in battle.
Cruz's Richard is no one's fool or lackey. In reimagining this text, Cruz emphasizes Richard III's outsider status--exacerbated by his severe scoliosis, which twisted his spine--by punctuating the text with punk music from 1970s London. He is a new kind of monarch, whose
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