Critical Quotes (AO5)

Question 1

David Baldwin’s 2013 full biography of Richard III views him as neither-

Answer 1

“a villain [nor] a man unjustifiably vilified throughout history”:
“Somewhere behind all the conflicting arguments stands a real man who had both qualities and failings.”

Question 2

Linda Charnes Notorious Identity: Materializing the Subject in Shakespeare 1993.
(debating the merit of other critical views): About Richard’s sense of schadenfreude.

Answer 2

‘Critics have often said that Shakespeare’s Richard III is memorable
because of the pleasure he takes in his villainy.’

Question 3

Linda Charnes Notorious Identity 1993 (debating the merit of other critical views):
Shakespeare’s characterization of Richard in line with the tudor myth

Answer 3

‘Richard seems to embrace with relish and bravado the
“stock” role of villain that Tudor history has cast him in.’

Question 4

Linda Charnes Notorious Identity 1993 (debating the merit of other critical views):
A deeper analysis of Richards actions relating to his deformity and consequently damaged psyche.

Answer 4

‘Richard is “psychologically complex,”
‘see in his misogyny and murderous aggression the effects of extraordinary narcissistic wounds’