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  • King Richard III
    yvetteslibrary
    Jun 11, 2026
    3.5
    Enjoyment: 3.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 3.5
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    Richard is a hunchbacked toad because he’s carrying the whole narrative on his back 😭

    I enjoyed his diabolical, devious, and shameless villainy. He was one of the most deliciously evil, charismatic, hyper-competent, and witty protagonists I’ve read. You can’t help but cheer for him as he dismantles England’s nobility one by one. He knows exactly what he wants and he’s going to get it.

    Richard never feels stupid or oblivious like many other protagonists in fiction. Despite the word of the author, God, public perception, and literally everything in the world against him, he still puts up a fight to the bitter end. He didn’t sit on his hands and wait to die. He knew Buckingham and Stanley weren’t loyal and worked to eliminate them. He even has his genuinely funny moments— like when he paid the messenger he slapped prematurely after he was given good news.

    I also enjoyed that female characters played a significant role in bringing Richard down. Margaret of Anjou, Elizabeth Woodville, and Anne Neville put up the most resistance against him compared to the noblemen who got played like fiddles.

    However, in the latter acts, the dialogue feels less clever and more repetitive. It seems that every character has to recite off a list of everyone Richard has killed, in chronological order, over and over again. We know he’s evil— you don’t have to keep hammering the point home.

    Also, I was disappointed we didn’t get to see more of Richmond/Henry Tudor. For the man hyped up as England savior, he’s dreadfully boring.

    Richard III doesn’t even feel like good Tudor propaganda. We didn’t get to see how hard Henry Tudor worked to put this rebellion together. How he must feel knowing he’s the last hope of Lancaster. We didn’t see Margaret Beaufort or Jasper Tudor, his mother and uncle, the two people who kept him alive in exile and orchestrated his rise to power. We just get told that he’s going to marry Elizabeth of York, when it was his mother securing that vital alliance for him.

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