“Why is everyone getting killed?”
-Maxwell’s assessment of Richard III by William Shakespeare

Back when I was an undergraduate, our Shakespeare class was in two halves–one semester was the histories, and the other semester was the comedies, tragedies, and the couple oddball plays that are hard to classify.

I skipped the history semester and just did the comedies, tragedies, and the couple oddball plays–or, as I like to think of it, the good semester.

Not only haven’t I read the histories, I’ve hardly even seen any of them staged, so when Lucas got cast as Prince Edward in Richard III… Read the rest