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4 days ago · May 26, 2024. Few English monarchs have captured the public imagination and sparked as much debate as Richard III. Despite his relatively short reign from 1483 to 1485, Richard III‘s legacy remains a topic of intense scrutiny and controversy among historians and history enthusiasts alike.
4 days ago · May 26, 2024. For centuries, Richard III has been cast as one of history‘s greatest villains—a wicked, deformed tyrant who ruthlessly murdered his way to the throne. This diabolical image of the last Plantagenet king has been seared into the popular imagination by influential portrayals like Shakespeare‘s depiction of "rudely stamp‘d ...
4 days ago · May 26, 2024. Shakespeare‘s Richard III is a brilliant portrait of villainy, a mesmerizing study in how unchecked ambition and Machiavellian manipulation can lead to the downfall of individuals and entire kingdoms. The play‘s titular character, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, has become the quintessential image of an evil king in popular culture.
4 days ago · In lodgings at a house near the "Castle Tavern" and Tea Gardens, old Colley Cibber, the best fop that ever appeared on the stage, died in 1757, aged eighty-six. As one of Pope's most recalcitrant butts, as the author of the Careless Husband, and as poet laureate, Cibber occupied a prominent place among the lesser lights of the long Georgian era ...
4 days ago · That memorable evening Johnson ridiculed Colley Cibber's birthday odes and Paul Whitehead's "grand nonsense," and ran down Gray, who had declined his acquaintance. He talked of other poets, and praised poor Goldsmith as a worthy man and excellent author. Boswell fairly won the great man by his frank avowals and his adroit flattery.
2 days ago · Is not Drury Lane Theatre also intimately associated with the name of Colley Cibber, successful manager and dramatist, and for twenty-seven years Poet Laureate? His annual birthday and New Year odes, all religiously preserved in the Gentleman's Magazine, are so invariably bad that his friends asserted that he wrote them as so many jokes.
4 days ago · Graeae, the company founded to combat expectations of disabled artists, are preparing a production of Romeo and Juliet ( 13 Sept-26 Oct) with “an all-deaf, disabled and neurodivergent cast”. Meanwhile, Michelle Terry, the Globe’s artistic director, was greeted with a storm of protest when she announced she would play the lead in Richard III.
