Word: crookback
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
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