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Richard III is a play by William Shakespeare. It was probably written c. 1592–1594. It is labelled a history in the First Folio, and is usually considered one, but it is sometimes called a tragedy, as in the quarto edition. Richard III concludes Shakespeare's first tetralogy (also containing Henry VI, Part 1, Henry VI, Part 2, and Henry VI ...
The Tragical History of King Richard Iii, Alter'd From Shakespeare (1699) is a history play written by Colley Cibber. It is based on William Shakespeare's Richard III, but reworked for Williamite audiences. Cibber, a prominent theatre manager, first attempted to stage his version in 1699, but the performance was a disaster.
Emrys Jones further suggests that Shakespeare may have been influenced in York's death scene by Desiderius Erasmus' Tragicus Rex and Thomas More's Utopia (1516) and History of King Richard III (1518), from which some of Richard's soliloquy in Act 5, Scene 6 is taken, especially the references to the need to play the actor. [13]
Elizabeth " Jane " Shore (née Lambert; c. 1445 – c. 1527) was one of the many mistresses of King Edward IV of England. She became the best known to history through being later accused of conspiracy by the future King Richard III, and compelled to do public penance.
The Life and Death of King Richard the Second, commonly called Richard II, is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written around 1595. Based on the life of King Richard II of England (ruled 1377–1399), it chronicles his downfall and the machinations of his nobles. It is the first part of a tetralogy, referred to by ...
Cover of the 1594 quarto of The True Tragedy of Richard III, which was " [p]rinted by Thomas Creede and ... to be sold by William Barley, at his shop in Newgate Market". The True Tragedy of Richard III is an anonymous Elizabethan history play on the subject of Richard III of England. It has attracted the attention of scholars of English ...
Mowbray Velte cites the anonymous play, The True Tragedie of Richard III (c. 1595) as a possible influence on both the Heywood play and Shakespeare's Richard III; Jane Shore is a main character in Thomas Heywood's play, Edward IV (c. 1600). In 1603, Philip Henslowe paid Henry Chettle and John Day to produce another play on Jane Shore. This play ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 25 September 2024. 15th-century English siblings who disappeared The Two Princes Edward and Richard in the Tower, 1483 by Sir John Everett Millais, 1878, part of the Royal Holloway picture collection. Edward V at right wears the garter of the Order of the Garter beneath his left knee. The Princes in the ...