Personally, I thought the interest of the play was in the relationships between the characters and the emotional turmoil many experience because of the deaths and Richard’s path to grabbing power. My friend did point out to me that a large number of people die in this play, which is true, but much of it happens off-stage, and I wasn’t emotionally invested in many of them. (I was reading a Dover Thrift Edition, which has close to zero explanatory material.) Once I sorted that out, however, and the multiple people who had the same name (historical accuracy, not Shakespeare’s fault), I was in for an exciting time. I did have a friend explain to me who the characters were and how they were related otherwise, I probably would have needed to consult Wikipedia or a family tree in order to understand the text. With the caveat that Richard III probably would have made more sense to me if I had read the historical plays that precede it, I enjoyed this portrayal of a ruthless man willing to cut down everyone around him to attain power–and the effects his actions had on those around him, including his own family.
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