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Richard III (Wars of the Roses #8)

William Shakespeare

Paperback | Pages: 414 pages

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Title	:	Richard III (Wars of the Roses #8)
Author	:	William Shakespeare
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 414 pages
Published	:	May 17th 2001 by Oxford University Press, USA (first published 1593)
Categories	:	Classics. Plays. Drama. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction

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Richard III is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays on the stage and has been adapted successfully for film. This new and innovative edition recognizes the play's pre-eminence as a performance work: a perspective that informs every aspect of the editing. Challenging traditional practice, the text is based on the 1597 Quarto which, brings us closest to the play as it would have been staged in Shakespeare's theater. The introduction, which is illustrated, explores the long performance history from Shakespeare's time to the present. The commentary gives detailed explanation of matters of language, staging, text, and historical and cultural contexts, providing coverage that is both carefully balanced and alert to nuance of meaning.
Documentation of the extensive textual variants is organized for maximum clarity: the readings of the Folio and the Quarto are presented in separate sections, and more specific information is given at the back of the book. Appendices also include selected passages from the main source and a special index of actors and other theatrical personnel.

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Original Title:	The Tragedy of King Richard the Third
ISBN:	0192839934 (ISBN13: 9780192839930)
Series:	Wars of the Roses #8, Shakespeare's Minor Tetralogy #4
Characters:	Elizabeth of York, Elizabeth Woodville, Henry VII of England, Richard III of England, Henry VI of England, Edward IV of England, Jane Shore, Edward V of England, Margaret of Anjou, George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York, Cecily Neville, Duchess of York, Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, Sir Thomas Grey, Marquess of Dorset, Sir Richard Grey, Lord Grey, Sir Thomas Vaughan, Edward Plantagenet, Lady Anne Neville, William, Lord Hastings, Thomas, Lord Stanley, Earl of Derby, John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, Sir James Blunt, Sir Walter Herbert, Sir William Brandon, Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk, Sir Richard Ratcliffe, Sir William Catesby, Sir James Tyrrel, Francis Lovell, 9th Baron Lovell, 6th Baron Holand, Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey, 1st Murderer (Richard III), 2nd Murderer (Richard III), Page to Richard III, Cardinal Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Rotherham, Archbishop of York, John Morton, Bishop of Ely, Sir Christopher Urswick, John, a Priest, Sir Robert Brakenbury, Keeper of the Tower, Edmund Shaa, Lord Mayor of London, Scrivener, Pursuivant, Sheriff (Richard III), Tressel, gentleman attending Lady Anne, Berkeley, gentleman attending Lady Anne, Edward Plantagenet, Earl of Warwick, Margaret Plantagenet, John Dighton, Miles Forrest, 1st Citizen (Richard III), 2nd Citizen (Richard III), Third Citizen (Richard III)

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Richard III, abridged:RICHARD: Mwahahaha! Mwahahahahaha! Mwahaha!CLARENCE: Hey brother! So, I guess I'm being sent to the Tower of London. Sucks, right? RICHARD: Don't worry, Clarence, you'll be fine. I'll try and get you out, and certainly won't hire assassins to kill you or anything. CLARENCE: Awesome! You're the best!RICHARD: Mwahahaha! ANNE: You killed my husband and my son in the last play, you asshole! I HATE YOU SO MUCH! RICHARD: I only killed your husband because you're so fucking hot.

"A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!Poor old Richard. I think you needed more than that horse to save your kingdom..

Shakespeare wrote two titanic tetralogies at the start of his career, spanning through the dynasties of 15th-century kings of England, from Edward III down to Henry VII. The second half of this gigantic saga (Henry VI, Parts 1, 2 and 3 + Richard III) has a general downward and inward movement.Downward because it illustrates the collapse of a nation into political chaos. While Henry V was the apotheosis of a heroic king sent from heaven, all of Henry VI was a slow descent, and finally Richard

Richard III, abridged:RICHARD: Mwahahaha! Mwahahahahaha! Mwahaha!CLARENCE: Hey brother! So, I guess I'm being sent to the Tower of London. Sucks, right? RICHARD: Don't worry, Clarence, you'll be fine. I'll try and get you out, and certainly won't hire assassins to kill you or anything. CLARENCE: Awesome! You're the best!RICHARD: Mwahahaha! ANNE: You killed my husband and my son in the last play, you asshole! I HATE YOU SO MUCH! RICHARD: I only killed your husband because you're so fucking hot.

He's to be re-interred in Leicester cathedral, despite York attempting to claim him.

Ill read this soon, when I finished 3 Henry VI.But I notice even many of the best critics arent always easy about Richard III - whether Samuel

Now is the winter of our discontentMade glorious summer by this sun of York;And all the clouds that lour'd upon our houseIn the deep bosom of the ocean buried.A powerful study of evil. Richard, though, is made to be more complex than the medieval personification of Vice, more human and thus, more terrible.No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast.