Reply #15: Richard III

[onager]

One of the most complex and entertaining characters ever created. It takes some talent to make an audience sympathetic toward a character who kills a man, then seduces his grieving widow. And later, kills two young children, then tries to marry their sister!

And that wonderful leering dialogue!

Plain, simple Clarence. I do love thee so, that I will shortly send thy soul to Heaven. If Heaven will take the present at our hands.

(I'm approaching the play strictly as entertainment. As everybody here probably knows, Shakespeare based his play on pro-Tudor propaganda cranked out by Thomas More and other Gannons of the era.)