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Richard III

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Englisch-deutsche Studienausgabe: Deutsche Prosafassung, Anmerkungen, Einleitung und Kommentar von Ute Schläfer
http://www.stauffenburg.de/asp/books.asp?id=895

Bilingual edition forthcoming: Stauffenburg Verlag

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on-line editions / translations / sources / historical context / productions, performances / film versions / adaptations in literature / adaptations in music / paintings / criticism / in the classroom / deutsche Webseiten / just for fun


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on-line editions

Quarto 1597, Folio 1623 [http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Annex/DraftTxt/R3/index.html]

Folio (1623), University of Virginia [http://etext.virginia.edu/shakespeare/folio/]


audio excerpts

Richard the Third (audio excerpt from 1995 film) Director: Richard Locraine. Queen Elizabeth: Annett Benning, Duchess of York: Maggie Smith (to listen, click at scene picture from
Knight's Imperial Edition) at: [http://home.wanadoo.nl/m.vanherpt/index.html] (Jan. 2002)

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translations

Richard III., Deutsche Übersetzung, Schlegel [http://projekt.gutenberg.de/shakespr/richard3/richard3.htm] (May 2002)

Richard III. zweisprachige Ausgabe. neu übersetzt von Frank Günther,
ars vivendi Band 11 (2002)

Koning Richard III
Dutch translation. by Jan Jonk. [http://www.janjonk.nl/] (March 2002)

Riccardo III / Richard III Italian version (PDF) [http://infoservice.dnsq.org/sh-drammi.html]

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sources

The Richard III Society Online Library: Full-text editions and extracts of fifteenth-through nineteenth-century sources on the Ricardian controversy; a hypertext edition of Shakespeare's play; essays on Richard III in history, drama, and literature, and resources for teaching. Arranged alphabetically by author. [http://www.r3.org/bookcase/index.html] (last visit: 05/05/00)

The Furness Shakespeare Library: Online facsimile editions of Holinshed's Chronicles (1577); Foxe's Actes and Monuments (1610); A Mirovr for Magistrates (1610); [http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/] (last visit: Oct. 2001)

A Mirovr for Magistrates (1610) [http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/] (last visit: Oct. 2001)

Kyd, Thomas, Spanish Tragedy [http://www.linkstoliterature.com/kyd.htm] full text, (Sept. 2002)

Sir
Thomas More's The History of Richard III: http://www.r3.org/bookcase/more/index.html (last visit 02/09/99)
Sir
Thomas More's The History of Richard III: [http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/r3.html
Richard III, [http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/iemls/work/chapters/rich3chp.html]

Polydore Vergil,
Anglica Historia (1534) [http://www.r3.org/bookcase/polydore.html] (last visit: 05/05/00)

Ovid,
Metamorphoses, English (ed. Brookes More) and Latin (ed. H. Magnus)

not available:
Thomas Legge, Richardus Tertius, 1579
Seneca's Hercules Furens, trans. Jasper Heywood, 1561
Anon., The True Tragedy of Richard III, 1594
Anon., The Rose of England

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historical context

Richard III society [http://www.richardiii.net/]

Shakespeare and history [http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Library/SLT/history/historysubj.html] (24/04/01)
The histories: historical background
[http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Library/SLT/history/thehistoriessubj.html] (24/04/01)
Order of Kings and Plays [http://web.uvic.ca/shakespeare/Library/SLT/history/chronologies.html] (24/04/01)

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productions, performances

a) stage history

Current and forthcoming Shakespeare productions in the UK [http://www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk/performance/shakespeare%20productions.html] (April 2002)

The Traffic on Stage (Shakespeare Productions 1999 - 2002 in the UK) [http://www.is.bham.ac.uk/traffic/] (September 2002)

Shakespeare at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre (1906-1960) [http://www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk/exhibition/Birmingham/home.html] (April 2002)

b) actors, pictures of performances

The Cleveland Press Shakespeare Photographs by Lesley Ellen Jorbin. Free searchable database for pictures of performances: photographs from the plays of Shakespeare on stage, screen, TV, opera and ballet. [http://www.ulib.csuohio.edu/shakespeare/] Histories [http://www.ulib.csuohio.edu/shakespeare/enghistory.shtml] (Jan. 2002)

Booth, Junius Brutus. Edwin Booth:
Some words about my father. (1886) Essay, with picture of Booth as Richard III [http://www.classicaltheatre.com/edwin_booth_on_his_father_junius_brutus_booth.htm] (May 2002)

Richard the Third (audio excerpt from 1995 film)" Director: Richard Locraine. Queen Elizabeth: Annett Benning, Duchess of York: Maggie Smith (to listen, click at scene picture from
Knight's Imperial Edition) at: [http://home.wanadoo.nl/m.vanherpt/index.html] (Jan. 2002)

c) reviews of productions

Broadway 1948/49 [http://www.theatredb.com/cgi-bin/q.pl?sid=s2014]
Broadway, 1979/80 [http://www.theatredb.com/cgi-bin/q.pl?sid=s1087|

Lanoye, Tom; Luk Perceval: TEN OORLOG (
SCHLACHTEN!) , see also: ShinE events (July 2000)

Boyd, Michael.
Young Vic 2001 reviews [http://www.albemarle-london.com/rsc-richardiii.html] (part of "This England - The Histories"

McCallum, Pamela, U. of Calgary. Cultural Memory and the
RSC Productions "This England: The Histories," Winter/Spring 2001: Some Comments on Roberta Barker's "Well-Graced Actors and Their Doubles." MLS, 2002 [http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/07-3/07-3toc.htm] (Febr. 2002)



film versions

Internet Movie Database [http://www.imdb.com/Name?Shakespeare,+William]
Shakespeare on Television: a bibliography of criticism [http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/06-1/diazbibl.htm]
King Rikki dir. James Gavin Bedford. (USA 2002) Shakespeare's Richard III in 21st century Los Angeles.[http://us.imdb.com/Title?0246890] (June 2002)

 
The Filth and the Fury, The Sex Pistols dir. Julien Temple (band member Johnny Rotten likened to Richard) [http://apolloguide.com/mov_revtemp.asp?CId=2170]
Looking for Richard (1996) dir. Al Pacino [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0116913]

Richard III (1995) dir. Richard Loncraine, [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0114279]; audio excerpt: Annett Benning, and Maggie Smith (to listen, click at scene picture from Knight's Imperial Edition) at: [http://home.wanadoo.nl/m.vanherpt/index.html] (Jan. 2002)
Richard III (France, 1986) dir. Raoul Ruiz [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0091851]

The Tragedy of Richard the Third, (UK, 1983) (BBC, TV) Jane Howell [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0086193]
Cook, Hardy M.
"Jane Howell's BBC First Tetralogy: Theatrical and Televisual Manipulation." Literature/Film Quarterly. 20 (1992): 326-331. Shaksper webpage: [http://ws.bowiestate.edu/archives/files/index.html]

Scarface (USA, 1983) dir. Brian de Palma, script by Oliver Stone. Cuban refugee (Al Pacino) builds crime empire in Florida; possibly influenced by Richard III [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0086250]
Richard III (USSR, 1980) [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0081426]
The War of the Roses. (1966) (BBC, TV) dir. John Barton, Peter Hall. Ian Holm as Richard. [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0060039]
An Age of Kings (1960) (BBC, TV) dir. Michael Hayes. A linking together of Shakespeare's history plays chronicling the rise and fall of monarchs over the 86 years between Richard II and Richard III. 15 episodes, 60 min. [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0239157]
Richard III (UK, 1954) dir. Laurence Olivier [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0049674]
Richard III (Germany, 1919) dir. Max Reinhardt [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0010627]
Richard III silent m. (UK, 1911) dir. Frank R. Benson [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0001857]
Richard III silent m. (F/USA 1912) dir. André Calmettes and James Keane [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0002461]
Richard III (USA, 1908) dir. J. Stuart Blackton, William V. Ranous [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0000750]

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adaptations in literature

Caryll, John.
The English Princess , or the Death of Richard III. 1667. [http://dewey.lib.upenn.edu/sceti/furness/]

Cibber, Colley.
Richard III (1700) [http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/Cib3Ric.html]

Lanoye, Tom; Luk Perceval: TEN OORLOG (
SCHLACHTEN!) , see also: ShinE events (July 2000)

Monty Python's Flying Circus "The Hospital for Overactors" Series 2, episode 25

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adaptations in music

Canepa, Luigi (1849-1914) Riccardo III , opera, 1879 [
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]

Henze, Hans-Werner. Gloucester, 1. Sonata in Royal Winter Music (1975)

Kuljeric, Igor:
Richard III, oratorio, 1984. interview: [http://mirror.veus.hr/vijenac/stari/broj107/107-8.html] (May 2002)

Meiners, Giovanni Battista ( 1826-1897) Riccardo III. opera, 1859 [
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]

Salvayre, Gaston (1847-1916) Richard III, opera 1883, [
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://members.it.tripod.de/amelia/]

Smetana, Bedrich. Richard III, op. 11, symphonic poem, 1857 [http://members.tripod.com/~Nash_K/bio.html] (September 2002)

Turok, Paul.
Richard III, op. 41, 1975. [http://www.carlfischer.com/lib_turokp.html] (May 2002)

The Filth and the Fury, The Sex Pistols, documentary film. dir. Julien Temple (band member Johnny Rotten is compared to Richard) [http://apolloguide.com/mov_revtemp.asp?CId=2170]

van Durme, J. Richard III, opera 1960/61

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paintings, illustrations

Shakespeare illustrated [http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/classes/Shakespeare_Illustrated/RichardIIIPaintings.html]

Boydell, London 1803 copperplates:
Act III sc. 1 [http://www.graphic-photo.de/0122.html]; Murder of the children in the Tower [http://www.graphic-photo.de/0123.html]; Burying of the children in the Tower [http://www.graphic-photo.de/0124.html]

Delaroche, Paul.
Edward V and the Duke of York in the Tower (1831) [http://www.mezzo-mondo.com/arts/mm/france19/delaroche/index.html]

"Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of York", Ward, E.M. (picture from
Knight's Imperial Edition) at: [http://home.wanadoo.nl/m.vanherpt/index.html] (Febr. 2002)


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criticism

Bystrom, Kerry.
Containing Richard: Loss of Self in Richard III (student's essay) [http://www.dartmouth.edu/~engl24/essays/bystrom.html]

Cassidy, Michael. "
When Most I Play the Devil": An Examination of the Historical and Theatrical Richard III [http://www.arts.ilstu.edu/shakespeare/research/R399.html]

Hjermstad, Megan
Lady Anne in Richard III (student's essay) [http://www.dartmouth.edu/~engl24/essays/hjermstad.html]

Johnston, Ian.
Lecture on Shakespeare's Transformation of Medieval Tragedy and an Introduction to Richard III [http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/eng366/lectures/lecture1b.htm] (May 2002)

Lakowski, Ramuald I. "
The Misogyny of Richard III in More's History of King Richard III and Shakespeare's Tragedy of King Richard the Third." Shaksper webpage: [http://ws.bowiestate.edu/archives/files/index.html]

McCallum, Pamela, U. of Calgary. Cultural Memory and the
RSC Productions "This England: The Histories," Winter/Spring 2001: Some Comments on Roberta Barker's "Well-Graced Actors and Their Doubles." MLS, 2002 [http://www.shu.ac.uk/emls/07-3/07-3toc.htm] (Febr. 2002)

Moore, James A.
Historicity in Shakespeare's Richard III [http://www.r3.org/bookcase/moore1.html]

Moulton: From The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors, ed. Charles Wells Moulton, 8 vols. (London: Moulton Publishing, 1901), 1: 477-80. [http://geocities.com/litpageplus/shakmoul-r3.html]

Oestreich-Hart, Donna J.
"Therefore, Since I Cannot Prove a Lover" SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 40.2 (2000) 241-260 [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/studies_in_english_literature/v040/40.2oestreich-hart.html]


Stetner, Clifford. The Merchant of Venice and the Second Tetralogy. [http://phoenixandturtle.net/excerptmill/upch3.htm]

Touchstone: UK Shakespeare Collections [http://www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk/] (April 2002)

Touchstone Database access to descriptions of UK Shakespeare collections and online catalogues: The Shakespeare Institute Library / The Shakespeare Centre Library/ Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Records Office / Birmingham Central Library [http://www.touchstone.bham.ac.uk/database.html] (April 2002)

Weinsoft, Judy R.
An Analysis of the Characterization of Richard in Shakespeare's Richard III and Gordon Daviot's Dickon (1993) [http://www.r3.org/judy.html]

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in the classroom

see also on this site:
Education - Shakespeare in the classroom

a) lesson plans for the lazy teacher

Richard III [http://www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-3804.html] (May 2002)

Marx, Steven.
Triangulating Shakespeare: teaching and lecture notes, course outlines, articles, links, suggestions, film reviews [http://cla.calpoly.edu/~smarx/Shakespeare/triang/Histories/histories.html]

Massi, JM.
study questions. [http://www.jetlink.net/~massij/wssq/r3.html] (25/04/01)

McGlinne, Jeanne M.
Richard III, Penguin Classics Teacher's Guide.
[http://www.penguinclassics.com]

b) sites for the eager student


Shakespeare- For Teachers and Students: Internet School Library Media Centre [http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/shakes.htm] (Jan . 2002)

The Shakespeare you knever knew:
The early history plays. Taught by Ralph Williams (University of Michigan). William Shakespeare's Henry VI (Parts 1-3) and Richard III as a single sustained story. [http://www.fathom.com/fks/catalog/course.jhtml?id=31702501]. payable. (May 2002)


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deutsche Webseiten

André Groechel,
Richard III - Inhaltsangabe, Quellen, Motive, Links: Informationen zu Quellen, Einführung ins Stück, Hintergründe, Links zu deutschen und englischen elektronischen Texten usw. [http://www.deslit.de/shakespeare/richard3.htm] Falls der Link nicht klappt:
[
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.deslit.de/shakespeare/richard3.htm]

Rod Andriz.
Richard III - Hintergründe und Informationen. [http://www.freunde.imperium.de/andriz/shakespeare/fo_richard3.html]

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Just for Fun

ultra-short version, Book-a-Minute Classics, Ultra-Condensed by Samuel Stoddard and David J. Parker [http://rinkworks.com/bookaminute/b/shakespeare.richardiii.shtml]

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