Laurence Olivier's Richard III tries to woo Anne (Claire Bloom) over-- making it harder than in the original Shakespeare--her husband's dead body. Olivier splits the seduction scene into two parts (this is part two), and some of the lines (like "Clarence beware thou keepest me from the light....) are from Cibber in the scene that follows. part 1 here: www.youtube.com go here to a single playlist of all the Shakespeare for SATS 2008: www.youtube.com Anne...Claire Bloom John Gielgud ... George, Duke of Clarence EB Warner, ("English History in Shakespeare's Plays", New York, 1894, p. 213): To my mind there is one explanation, and one only, of the mental and moral attitude of Lady Anne. Richard was the strong man of his times. Ugly and deformed, still he was a powerful individuality. By sheer force of intellectual strength he dominated and fascinated men as well as women. If by any chance Anne had come under the spell of Richard's magic, winning power, she could easily proceed step by step, from hatred of his crimes and contempt for his person, to admiring his genius, and exulting that even in seeming, the strong man was at her feet. She might not have really believed that her 'beauty was the cause of that effect,' but she must have been moved to hear it so alleged. In other words, Anne was in love with Richard, and all that sparring of the courtship scene is the resistance of one who expects to be captured and desires to be. It must be remembered, of course, that even with <b>...</b>
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