Introduction to the Play
Introduction tothe Text
Key Facts
The Tragedy of Richard the Third
Textual Notes
Quarto passages that do not appear in the Folio
Scene-by-scene Analysis
Richard III in Performance: the RSC and Beyond
Four Centuries of Richard III: An Overview
At the Royal Shakespeare Company
Actor, Director and Designer: interviews with Simon Russell Beale,
Bill Alexander and Tom Piper
Richard and Tyranny: reflections by Richard Eyre
Shakespeare's Career in the Theatre
Shakespeare's Works: a Chronology
Further Reading and Viewing
Acknowledgements and Picture Credits
JONATHAN BATE is Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance
Literature, University of Warwick, UK, and the editor of The RSC
Shakespeare: The Complete Works. He has held visiting posts at
Harvard, Yale and UCLA and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of
Literature, a Fellow of the British Academy, an Honorary Fellow of
St Catherine's College, Cambridge, and a Governor and Board member
of the Royal Shakespeare Company. A prominent critic, award-winning
biographer and broadcaster, he is the author of several books on
Shakespeare, including The Genius of Shakespeare (Picador), which
was praised by Sir Peter Hall, founder of the RSC, as "the best
modern book on Shakespeare." In June 2006 he was awarded a CBE by
HM The Queen 'for services to Higher Education'.
ERIC RASMUSSEN is Professor of English at the University of Nevada,
USA, and the Textual Editor of The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete
Works. He is co-editor of the Norton Anthology of English
Renaissance Drama and has edited volumes in both the Arden
Shakespeare and Oxford World's Classics series. He is the General
Textual Editor of the Internet Shakespeare Editions project - one
of the most visited Shakespeare websites in the world. For over
nine years he has written the annual review of editions and textual
studies for the Shakespeare Survey.
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