ICYMI: HBO's Succession might just be the most ambitious and successful updating of Shakespearean storytelling & themes on television to date: Opinion / Max JesseArmstrong Shakespeare WilliamShakespeare
is over, its story is complete after four seasons of sheer rollercoaster rides. It's probably the most skillfully plotted series of recent years, though its tropes are hundreds of years old, going all the way back tohas done is translate the themes of Shakespeare's dramas about kings and kingdoms into a relatable modern-day context.
Shakespeare's plays about kings have always been about two questions as their main themes: a) who gets to be king? and b) who would be a good king? Granted, they were pro-monarchist propaganda designed to suck up to the crown at the time , but he still wrung good drama out of them.Richard IIIis a modern take on those themes by assuming that kings are inherently self-serving and corrupt, and everyone, without exception, who wanted to take over Waystar from Logan Roy was a terrible person.
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