Richard III.
Die Welt (April 23, 2014)
Richard III. by Die Welt kompakt –
That Germany sees Shakespeare as one of their own won’t surprise, if one takes into account the influence the famous bard had on German literature. Goethe admired him and set him up on a pedestal, today’s theatre producers play Shakespeare’s work up and down and every current problem will be projected on one of Shakespeare’s plays, if he had intended it that way or not, e.g. gay marriage, modern warfare, holocaust or marriage problems of all kinds. So it is of no great wonder that even “Richard III” gets modern relevance, as shown in this short article by one of Germans leading newspapers and is refered to wherever it gets ‘cold’.
