How maliciousness in Richard III cannot be portrayed through a stripped down play.

It is difficult to fully comprehend the idea of malice. Some might say that a human can only truly comprehend malice if they experience it first. Dictionary.com defines malice as:
1.A desire to harm others or to see others suffer; extreme ill will or spite.
2.The intent, without just cause or reason, to commit a wrongful act that will result in harm to another.
As we have talked about in class and in most literature critiques, Richard III is clearly an evil, jealous, ambitious and (foremost) malicious man. Eve Shapiro (the director of the play) tried to portray the maliciousness of Ric…