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Richard III: to make Shakespeare feminist, you need more than just a woman in the lead | Cassie Tongue by Cassie Tongue

Kate Mulvany is astonishing in the title role of Bell Shakespeare's latest Richard III, but that doesn't make it politically radicalRichard III, Shakespeare's tragi-history about a tyrant's rise to power, is inherently, though not potently, political. Richard's physical disabilities (notably, a hunched back) have rendered him a laughing stock, an un-serious prospect for ultimate rule. So he brilliantly and bloodily s…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42AM on March 2, 2017

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