EN234 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: House Of Tudor, Tragic Hero
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One of the most evil, psychopath character of shakespeare. A psychopath like richard will just kill people. The monster he is, the villain role he is playing, he wants to be defined as a villain. In some ways shakespeare has used richard as a tool, in this corrupt course, to kill off other corrupt people. He is often viewed as a villain of english history. Shakespeare"s historical play - the tragedy of richard iii (1592) - helped to reinforce and popularize the belief that he was ugly, deformed, evil, ruthless, power-hungry, murderous. He is the last english king died in a english battle. Disabilities, yet it was exaggerated in history, and he was quite good looking. Why did the english history describe as ugly, with hunch-backed. Symbolized his inside, be as ugly on the inside as he was in the outside.
