Other plays in the season include a production of William Shakespeare's Richard II and Inadmissible Evidence by John Osborne.
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One of the most controversial kings in British history, Richard III was demonised by Shakespeare as a murderous usurper with a hunchback.
They recently staged a performance of the Shakespeare's Richard III and are acting scenes from the play as part of their protest.
To help pay the increase the Lord Chamberlain's Men had to do something theater companies usually were loath to: They sold publication rights to four of their most popular plays, all by Shakespeare--Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV and Love's Labour's Lost.
William Shakespeare's "Richard III" helped to popularize this depiction, describing Richard as a crippled villain who killed anyone in his path to the throne.
He is due to play Richard II in a new BBC Shakespeare adaptation which is part of next year's cultural programming to coincide with the Olympics.
But it does not tell us anything to justify changing the current historical view of Richard: that the Tudor historians and propagandists, culminating with Shakespeare, may have exaggerated his physical deformities and the horrors of Richard's character, but he remains a criminal king whose actions wrought havoc on his realm.
Shakespeare then helped to make Richard notorious as one of the English language's most memorable villains.
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Stephen Fry makes his official return to the West End stage as Malvolio in an all-male production of Twelfth Night, a transfer from Shakespeare's Globe alongside Richard III.
Shakespeare and others have characterized Richard III as a hunchback, and the body found among the remains of what was once a monastery shows signs of scoliosis, or curvature of the spine.
But after a school trip to see a much-lauded Royal Shakespeare Company performance of "Richard II, " and a visit to the cinema with classmates to see Stanley Kubrick's controversial " A Clockwork Orange, " his ambitions turned instead to film and theater.
Shakespeare was born about 80 years after Richard died and wrote during the Tudor dynasty.
Most people are only familiar with the vengeful, manipulative hunchback that Shakespeare portrayed, but groups like the Richard III society see that as a distortion or flat-out-lie.
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The all-female production follows closely after and all-male version of both Twelfth Night and Richard III, recently transferred to the West End from Shakespeare's Globe.
Yet many Ricardians say Shakespeare, who was born about 80 years after Richard died, did his subject no favors by depicting the king as deformed and sinister, murdering his nephews to quicken his rise.
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In the case of "One Man, Two Guvnors, " playwright Richard Bean drew from the Italian tradition of commedia dell'arte, Shakespeare and farce, right on through to Benny Hill and Monty Python.
Assuming that the skeleton really is that of the king as the DNA experts at Leicester contend, having connected him to a Canadian carpenter named Michael Ibsen, who is directly descended from King Richard's mother its curvature of the spine implies that Shakespeare only slightly exaggerated by making him hunchbacked.
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Shakespeare's story evolved from a history penned by Sir Thomas More more than two decades after Richard died in the Battle of Bosworth in 1485.
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