King Richard III [Naxos] - William Shakespeare

Category: Adults, Classic, Literature, Plays & Theater
Language: English
Keywords: Naxos Shakespeare

Written by William Shakespeare
Read by Kenneth Branagh, Geraldine McEwan, Nicholas Farrell, Stella Gonet, Michael Maloney
Format: M4B
Unabridged

Written in 1593, King Richard III is one of Shakespeare’s earliest plays. This play differs from its predecessors, being amore structured piece, examining the development and motivations of a single character, Richard Duke of Gloucester, who will stop at nothing to gain control of the throne occupied by his brother Edward IV.

Richard III is a self-motivating character who defies determinism (a life preordained by God) and sets his life on a course chosen by his own will and desire, as he puns in the opening soliloquy: “I am determined to be a villain. Determined by birth and God, and determined in the other sense, by his own will.”