Word: crookbacked
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...that long dolly which grows from Malcolm McDowell's leer to encompass the entire terribly-clever Korova Milk bar set, we are begged to participate in a mere thrill show. A proud Kubrick tells his interviewers how people may come to identify with McDowell as they do with Crookback in Richard III. But both Shakespeare and the original Burgess novel obviously present greater challenges: complex worlds beyond the single demented viewpoint of alternatives lost to antisocial action...
...important unifying theme-what Director Hall calls "the dilemma of power: Can a man be 'good' and politic? Do you have to be a bad man to be a good king?" The final answer to that question is supplied by Richard III, the "crookback" who murders gentle Henry VI but dies ignominiously at last at the hands of Richmond. Boldly, Hall and Barton set to work reworking, re-editing and sometimes rewriting Henry VI and, to a lesser degree, Richard III. After nine months' labor they had completed the Wars of the Roses trilogy-which consists...
RICHARD THE THIRD, by Paul Murray Kendall. A U.S. historian's big, balanced biography of "Richard Crookback" that pleased even Britain's reviewers. Richard may or may not have murdered the princes in the tower, but this book accords him kingly virtues which readers of history have seldom suspected...
Shakespeare is throwing this mud at Britain's Richard of Gloucester, alias "Richard Crookback," better known as Richard III. Generations of students have gasped with horror at the monstrous doings of Britain's basest king, notorious for the murder of his young nephews ("The Little Princes in the Tower''). Not for three centuries did historians begin to wonder whether Crookback could possibly have been quite so crooked. Now. Ohio University Historian Paul Kendall has tried once more to get at the truth...
Author Kendall tries to fill in the vacuum by suggesting that puny Richard practiced swordsmanship so vigorously that his right arm and shoulder developed at the expense of his left, making him seem "crookback'd." What is certain is that at the age of 18 he was a trusted general and led a flank of his brother's army against the Earl of Warwick at the Battle of Barnet. (Author Kendall's maps show modern landmarks so the reader can picture Warwick driving south across the "Golf Links.") But only with the sudden death of Edward...
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