producing Richard III

Vickie Church English 402 Final Paper May 3rd 2001 The Making of Richard III I believe that the only way to do Richard III justice is to produce it as a western, using the famous gunfight at the OK Corral as the setting. Actions packed movies are underlined with the same themes that I find in Shakespeare’s Richard III: Deceit, double-crossing, power, lust and of course, murder. In fact, most historical conflicts have more than one …

…then hand in hand to hell” (lines 37-39, 5.6). All of Richard’s dreams are crushed as Richmond and his subjects meet them at the Ok Corral and win the showdown in only 30 seconds, just as the Earps won over the Clantons at the real gunfight at the OK Corral. Thus ends the War of the Roses, and begins the rise of the hose of Tudor, continuing to write themselves in the history books. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**