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King Richard III was a monster. He poisoned his wife, stole the throne from his two young nephews and ordered them to be smothered in the Tower of London. Richard was a sort of Antichrist the King -- "that bottled spider, that pois'nous bunch-back'd toad...
Richard III is called a "hellhound," an "elvish-mark'd, abortive, rooting hog," "a bottled spider" and a "poisonous bunch-back'd toad...
...ought to have sprouted a long, pointy mustache for his Richard III so he could twirl it. Returning to the stage for this limited engagement (through July 15) at Broadway's Cort Theater, the man who mumbled so effectively through two Godfathers on-screen turns Shakespeare's "bunch-back'd toad" into a smarmy caricature villain out of silent movies and old comic strips; he personifies the sort of dastard who forecloses the mortgage on the family farm and threatens the virtue of fair young damsels...
...That bottled spider," Shakespeare called the last Plantagenet. "That pois'nous bunch-back'd toad." Other Tudor chroniclers-variously declaring that he arranged the murder of his brother, poisoned his own wife, usurped the throne from his two young nephews and ordered them to be smothered in the Tower of London -have made Richard III Britain's very own Ivan the Terrible...
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