Try as I might, whenever I watch a “traditional” performance of this play I just can’t shake the Richards in the Monty Python sketch being treated for chronic over-acting. Of course Shakespeare’s characterization of his antihero is so cartoonishly evil that at least a little over-dramatization is probably in order. And in Laurence Olivier’s defense, he could have been much farther over the top than he was here (though I could have done without the nose makeup). As usual with Richard III, I was able to enjoy the machinations of one of the dastardliest villains in English history despite the unavoidable self-parody of a character so ridiculously rotten. Mildly amusing
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