{"product_id":"richard-iii-9780866986762","title":"Richard III","description":"\u003cb\u003ePlaywright Migdalia Cruz breathes new life into \u003ci\u003eRichard III\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Nuyorican playwright Migdalia Cruz unpacks and repositions Shakespeare's \u003ci\u003eRichard III\u003c\/i\u003e for a twenty-first-century audience. She presents a contemporary English verse translation, faithfully keeping the poetry, the puns, and the politics of the play intact, with a rigorous and in-depth examination of \u003ci\u003eRichard III\u003c\/i\u003e--the man, the king, the outsider--who is still the only English king to have died in battle. In the Wars of the Roses, his Catholic belief in his country led to his slaughter at Bosworth's Field by his Protestant rivals. In reimagining this text, Cruz emphasizes Richard III's outsider status--exacerbated by his severe scoliosis, which twisted his spine--by punctuating the text with punk music from 1970s London. Cruz's Richard is no one's fool or lackey. He is a new kind of monarch, whose dark sense of humor and deep sense of purpose leads his charge against the society which never fully accepted him because he looked different. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This translation was written as part of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Play On! project, which commissioned new translations of thirty-nine Shakespeare plays. These translations present the work of \"The Bard\" in language accessible to modern audiences while never losing the beauty of Shakespeare's verse. These volumes make these works available for the first time in print--a new First Folio for a new era.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance S\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/05\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780866986762\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 140\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 4.90w x 0.40d","brand":"William Shakespeare","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41838992621749,"sku":"9780866986762","price":8.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_b975306c-03a6-4a34-bf04-21f849edf935.jpg?v=1646729516","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/richard-iii-9780866986762","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}