http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/richard-iii Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Sun, 03 May 2026 07:05:42 -0400 Sun, 03 May 2026 07:05:42 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/118/william-shakespeares-richard-iii-brilliant-schemer-entertaining-villain By Katherine Blakeney - Shakespeare’s Richard is a brilliant schemer and manipulator, completely devoid of scruples of any kind. He also happens to be severely physically deformed. The inevitable feelings of inadequacy, envy, and frustration that this engenders are heightened when his military talents are no longer needed. As he beautifully explains at the beginning of Act I, “all the clouds that loured upon” the house of York are now “in the deep bosom of the ocean buried”. It seems the Wars of the Roses are finally over (for now), and unadapted as Richard is to “idle pleasures&rdquo... Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:00 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/118/william-shakespeares-richard-iii-brilliant-schemer-entertaining-villain