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  • Richard III
    Richard III
    / Adaptations

    Alec Guinness, Kenneth Branagh, Antony Sher, Kevin Spacey, and Mark Rylance. Modern productions have focused on portraying Richard as realistically disabled rather than Shakespeare’s exaggerated “deformed,” with such actors as Peter Dinklage, who has a form of dwarfism, and Paralympic athelete and actress Katy Sullivan, taking the role.

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    Alec Guinness, Kenneth Branagh, Antony Sher, Kevin Spacey, and Mark Rylance. Modern productions have focused on portraying Richard as realistically disabled rather than Shakespeare’s exaggerated “deformed,” with such actors as Peter Dinklage, who has a form of dwarfism, and Paralympic athelete and actress Katy Sullivan, taking the role.

    Read More