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Richard III

By Migdalia Cruz and William Shakespeare
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Playwright Migdalia Cruz delivers a contemporary English verse translation of Shakespeare's Richard III, preserving the original's poetry, puns, and politics. This reimagining highlights Richard III as an outsider, shaped by his physical deformity and Catholic faith during the Wars of the Roses. Cruz accentuates his rebellious spirit by blending the text with 1970s London punk music, presenting a monarch with dark humour and a resolute sense of purpose challenging a society that marginalised him.
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"A contemporary English verse translation, faithfully keeping the poetry, the puns, and the politics of the play intact, with a rigorous and in-depth examination of Richard III-the man, the king, the outsider-who is still the only English king to have died in battle"--

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Playwright Migdalia Cruz breathes new life into Richard III.

Nuyorican playwright Migdalia Cruz unpacks and repositions Shakespeare’s Richard III for a twenty-first-century audience. She presents a contemporary English verse translation, faithfully keeping the poetry, the puns, and the politics of the play intact, with a rigorous and in-depth examination of Richard III—the man, the king, the outsider—who is still the only English king to have died in battle.

In the Wars of the Roses, his Catholic belief in his country led to his slaughter at Bosworth’s Field by his Protestant rivals. In reimagining this text, Cruz emphasizes Richard III’s outsider status—exacerbated by his severe scoliosis, which twisted his spine—by punctuating the text with punk music from 1970s London. Cruz’s Richard is no one’s fool or lackey. He is a new kind of monarch, whose dark sense of humour and deep sense of purpose leads his charge against the society which never fully accepted him because he looked different.

This translation was written as part of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Play On! project, which commissioned new translations of thirty-nine Shakespeare plays. These translations present the work of "The Bard" in language accessible to modern audiences while never losing the beauty of Shakespeare’s verse. These volumes make these works available for the first time in print—a new First Folio for a new era.

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ISBN: 9780866986762

Publisher: Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 January 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 200.0mm

Weight: 180g

Pages: 140

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Arts & Culture Classic Poetry Migdalia Cruz Non-Fiction William Shakespeare

About the Author

Migdalia Cruz is an award-winning writer of more than sixty plays, musicals, and operas, which have been performed in over venues across the Americas, Europe, Australia, and the Middle East. She is an alumna of New Dramatists and cochair of the playwriting fellows at the Dramatists Guild.

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