Films and Adaptations
Silent Shakespeare. Richard III. (1911)
Richard Loncraine. Richard III. (1996)

Al Pacino. Looking for Richard. (1996)

Laurence Olivier. Richard III. (1953)

Criticism

Cartelli, Thomas. “Shakespeare and the Street: Pacino’s Looking for Richard, Bedford’s Street King, and the Common Understanding.” Shakespeare, the Movie II: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV, Video, and DVD. Eds. Richard Burt and Lynda E. Boose. London: Routledge, 2003. 186-199.

Coursen, H. R. “Filming Shakespeare’s History: Three Films of Richard III.” The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film. Ed. Russell Jackson. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000. 99-116.

Crowl, Samuel. “Changing Colors Like the Chameleon: Loncraine’s Richard III.” Shakespeare at the Cineplex: The Kenneth Branagh Era. Athens: Ohio UP, 2003. 105-118.

Davies, Anthony. “The Shakespeare Films of Laurence Olivier.” The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film. Ed. Russell Jackson. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000. 163-182.

Donaldson, Peter. "Cinema and the Kingdom of Death: Loncraine's Richard III." MS (forthcoming in Shakespeare Quarterly).

Freedman, Barbara. “Critical Junctures in Shakespeare Screen History: The Case of Richard III.” The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film. Ed. Russell Jackson. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000. 47-71.

Guneratne, Anthony R. “Cinema: ‘Thou Dost Usurp Authority’: Beerbohm Tree, Reinhardt, Olivier, Welles, and the Politics of Adapting Shakespeare.” A Concise Companion to Shakespeare on Screen. Ed. Diana E. Henderson. Malden: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2006. 31-53.

Hatchuel, Sarah. “Case Studies (Hamlet, Richard III, Othello, Julius Cesar, Henry V).” Shakespeare: From Stage to Screen. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. 152-176.

Hodgdon, Barbara. “Replicating Richard: Body Doubles, Body Politics.” Theatre Journal 50 (May, 1998).

Hopkins, Lisa. “‘How very like the home life of our own dear queen’: Ian McKellen’s Richard III.” Spectacular Shakespeare: Critical Theory and Popular Cinema. Eds. Courtney Lehmann and Lisa S. Starks. Cranbury, NJ: Rosemount Publishing and Printing Corp., 2002. 47-61.

Jorgens, Jack J. “Laurence Olivier’s Richard III.” Shakespeare on Film. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1977. 136-147.

Loehlin, James N. “‘Top of the world, ma’: Richard III and Cinematic Convention.” Shakespeare, the Movie II: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV, Video, and DVD. Eds. Richard Burt and Lynda E. Boose. London: Routledge, 2003. 173-185.

Manvell, Roger. “Laurence Olivier and the Filming of Shakespeare.” Shakespeare and the Film. London: Praeger Publishers, 1971. 37-54.

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Rothwell, Kenneth S. (1999). “Laurence Olivier directs Shakespeare.” A History of Shakespeare on Screen: A Century of Film and Television. 2^nd Ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. 47-68.

---. (1999). “Shakespeare in Silence: From Stage to Screen.” A History of Shakespeare on Screen: A Century of Film and Television. 2^nd Ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004. 1-26.