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Richard III (No Fear Shakespeare) SparkNotes Editors, SparkNotes Staff
Publisher: Sterling

In Shakespeare we encounter Richard III as an evil genius, one theatric-evolutionary step beyond the Vice character of medieval morality plays. Again the quotation “let not out babbling dreams affright our souls / conscience is but a word that cowards use” (V.iii.308-9) tells us that what Richard fears is the guilt that his human conscience finally recognizes. I first saw Laurence Olivier's film version of Shakespeare's Richard III in a theater in New York City sometime in the late 1950s, when I was a teenage acting student. Richard loves Richard; that is, I am I. She is no longer queen and should not be confused with Queen Elizabeth. Richard deceives and beguiles his way to the crown, and self-conscious lines in the Complete Works. After a night of visitations from the ghosts of his victims, a frightened Richard “Starteth up out of a dream”: What do I fear? It will be a whole new era for Richard III,” Lynda Pidgeon, spokeswoman for the Richard III Society, said of the discovery that the skeleton found under a car-park in Leicester is almost certainly that… Philippa Maddern does not work for, consult to, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has no relevant affiliations. Richard has no nature, no character, other than shameless and pitiless greed and ambition. It's been a while since I posted about a history play so it might be a little confusing as far as how the characters in Richard III are related to the characters in the Henry VI plays. Shakespeare uses Richard to ellaborate on the cause of that fear and the characteristics of those who instill it.