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Volume 5 Number 1 / Spring 1984

Robin Phillips' Richard III: History and Human Will

Submitted
May 13, 2008
Published
1984-01-01

Abstract

Robin Phillips' Richard III in 1977 was among the most distinguished productions of Shakespeare during Phillips' six-year tenure as artistic director of the Stratford Festival. Brian Bedford's Richard, presented as a recognizably human study of perverted will, was balanced, not by Richmond, who was played by Tom Wood as a pious Machiavellian, but by the play's chorus of women, presented by Martha Henry, Margaret Tyzack, Maggie Smith and Mary Savidge as the unified voice of time, history and the play's plot. Le Richard III de Robin Phillips a été en 1977, l'une des représentations de Shakespeare les plus remarquables produites pendant les six ans au cours desquels Phillips était le directeur artistique du festival de Stratford. Le Richard de Brian Bedford, présenté comme l'un des avatars d'une volonté pervertie, a eu pour contrepoids, non pas tant Richmond, interprété par Tom Wood comme un Machiavel pieux, que le choeur des femmes, composé de Martha Henry, Margaret Tyzack, Maggie Smith et Mary Savidge représentant l'unité temporelle, historique et structurale.