"An honest tale speeds best‚ being plainly told.” This quote from William Shakespeare’s King Richard III is a seed from which Al Pacino’s docu-drama Looking For Richard grows‚ both texts demonstrating the intrinsic relationship between contexts and the composition of texts. As 21st century students‚ we see Pacino’s creative reshaping emphasise inherent values within the original text‚ from dynamic perspectives to interpretational understandings‚ presented in an ‘honest’ and ‘plainly told’ composition
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Why Was Richard III Defeated at the Battle of Bosworth? On the 22nd of August 1485 Richard III‚ the last Plantagenet King‚ was defeated and killed in the Battle of Bosworth against Henry Tudor‚ who would found a dynasty which would feature the first Queen to rule in her own right and would last until 1603. Richard had over twice as many men as Henry but was defeated when‚ trying to get to Henry‚ Richard was slain by a rush of cavalry led by Sir William Stanley‚ the brother of Henry’s step father
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Explain why Richard III lost the crown in 1485 Richard III lost the crown in 1485 for a number of reasons. For example‚ he had a lack of support from the nobility at the time‚ especially as the Southern nobles disliked Richard’s favor of the North. He was also hated for the usurpation‚ and was later accused of the murder of the Princes in the Tower‚ and his own wife Anne Neville. People began to turn for an alternative‚ which they found with Henry Tudor‚ and as a cause of this Richard lost much of
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sure that the bones actually belong to King Richard. Who is to make the decision that the bones are truly his though? Without all of the evidence supporting positive‚ who is to know? Scientists are continuously trying to work out the case. They compared DNA of the skeleton to those of living posterity. They concluded that it in fact matched the king from what they could tell. The tests that some scientists and archeologists ran were; DNA samples‚ cutting edge x-ray tomography‚ carbon dating
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Explain why Richard III faced rebellion in 1483 (12 Marks) Shortly after Richard III usurped the throne he faced a series of rebellions‚ the majority of which coming from the south of England. Many people call these rebellions after the Duke of Buckingham but in fact most of the rebellions took place before he switched sides and he himself on backed a few of the rebellions. In these rebellions (Kent‚ Sussex and Surrey being the biggest ones) Richard needed to rely on his loyal over mighty Lords to
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Pacino’s Looking for Richard Review? That’s exactly what you’re doing‚ and this pleasant surprise is about all the insight I can give you about the fantasy sto… I mean ‘docudrama type thing’. Yes ‘Docudrama type thing’ as described personally by the narrator Al Pacino. The opening scene with the cold winter background‚ leave less grounds and the grey skies that was alluded to above‚ is a direct connection to the opening soliloquy exerted by Richard in Shakespeare’s Richard III‚ "Now is the winter
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William Shakespeare’s “King Richard III”‚ an Elizabethan play written as a piece of Tudor propaganda‚ and Al Pacino’s 1996 docudrama “Looking For Richard” set in contemporary New York‚ have distinctive parallels in what values they concern themselves with despite their markedly different contexts. Our understanding of both texts is advanced through exploring the composers’ contrasting values of free will clashing with Providentialism and the importance of integrity and honesty in the Murder of Clarence
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‘King Richard III’‚ human condition is shown throughout the play through the words of the characters‚ but most noticeable is through antagonist Richard and how he is power-hungry‚ also Shakespeare’s need to perpetuate the Tudor Myth. While in ‘Looking for Richard’ Al Pacino’s 1996 docu-drama human condition is shown through Al Pacino and the reasons as to why he wanted to create Looking For Richard‚ these reasons include wanting to revive Shakespeare and also to bring Shakespeare and Richard the Third
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RicThrough the comparison of different texts‚ the audience gains deeper understanding of a composer’s contextual values. Shakespeare’s historical tragedy ‘King Richard III’ reflects a theocentric world view of Elizabethan England. This melodrama has been reshaped by Pacino’s 1996 doco-drama Looking for Richard exploring the relevance of Elizabethan beliefs after the influence of postmodern ethics on humanitarian ideas. Both Shakespeare and Pacino utilize the dominant media of their time to portray
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In the play ’Richard III’‚ the characters are an important part in the story. The characters of any story are the main reason the story advances. The characters and their personalities also play a major role in deciding the plot. In ’Richard III’‚ William Shakespeare‚ the author‚ uses Richard’s intelligence‚ wordplay‚ and wit to advance the story and characters. There is no doubt about the fact that Richard is the villain of this play. He is also the protagonist‚ which is the leading character
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