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- Title
"And thus I clothe my naked villainy": Richard III and the Deformed Body as Rhetorical Camouflage in Thomas Ostermeier's Production.
- Authors
Peghinelli, Andrea
- Abstract
If the royal body exists to be looked at and acquires its meaning only when it is exposed, then in Thomas Ostermeier's staging and screening of Shakespeare's Richard III we can see this principle exhibited to its extreme. In this article, I argue that, in Ostermeier's production, it is Richard's skillful use of his voice and speaking ability that seduces and manipulates his audience. From the very beginning of the performance, there is no intention to mask Richard's renowned hunchback and, on the contrary, it is soon laid bare as a fake, a piece of theatrical makeup. It is instead predominantly through his rhetoric that he builds the performing kind of body he considers useful for his specific purpose. During its run at the sixty-ninth Avignon festival, Richard III was filmed and broadcast on ARTE France, and since then it has been possible to watch it, including during an international broadcast on the Schaubühne's own website on 3 April 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the article, I therefore also focus my attention on the issue of presence and participation of the audience in the "liveness" of the remediation, and consider the effects of the different temporalities implied in the theatre production and in its recorded version.
- Subjects
OSTERMEIER, Thomas; RICHARD III (Play : Shakespeare); ADAPTATIONS of Shakespeare's works; SHAKESPEARE, William, 1564-1616; COVID-19 pandemic
- Publication
Shakespeare Bulletin, 2021, Vol 39, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0748-2558
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/shb.2021.0014