Richard III

Author:   William Shakespeare ,  Migdalia Cruz
Publisher:   Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US
ISBN:  

9780866986762


Pages:   140
Publication Date:   05 January 2022
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 9 years
Format:   Paperback
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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. 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. In the Wars of the Roses, his Catholic belief in his country led to his slaughter at Bosworth’s Field by his Protestant rivals. 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. Cruz’s Richard is no one’s fool or lackey. He is a new kind of monarch, whose dark sense of humor and deep sense of purpose leads his charge against the society which never fully accepted him because he looked different. This translation was written as part of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Play On! project, which commissioned new translations of thirty-nine Shakespeare plays. These translations present the work of ""The Bard"" in language accessible to modern audiences while never losing the beauty of Shakespeare’s verse. These volumes make these works available for the first time in print—a new First Folio for a new era. 

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Author:   William Shakespeare ,  Migdalia Cruz
Publisher:   Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US
Imprint:   Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 20.00cm
Weight:   0.180kg
ISBN:  

9780866986762


ISBN 10:   0866986766
Pages:   140
Publication Date:   05 January 2022
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 9 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Migdalia Cruz is an award-winning writer of more than sixty plays, musicals, and operas, which have been performed in over venues across the Americas, Europe, Australia, and the Middle East. She is an alumna of New Dramatists and cochair of the playwriting fellows at the Dramatists Guild.

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