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Call me old-fashioned, but on the opening page of my copy of Shakespeare's "Richard III" I don't see any stage direction that reads "Enter King and Court to portentous swelling music and vulgar pantomime." The director Peter DuBois's first gesture in his new production (at the Public) is to smudge the canvas. Instead of beginning the play as Shakespeare intended, with the deformed Richard, Duke of Gloucester, exposing his diabolical wound and wit to the audience from an empty stage, DuBois externalizes what should be a startling and seductive moment of confession. Here Richard enters and approaches King Edward IV's throne with his back to the audience; his famous first ...