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The Tragedy of Richard the Third, often shortened to 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.
Pamphlet promoting the performance of Richard III at Drury Lane Theatre on 14 May 1838. 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.
William Shakespeare used the revised second edition of the Chronicles (published in 1587) as the source for most of his historical plays, such as Richard III, the plot of Macbeth, and portions of King Lear and Cymbeline. According to Alison Taufer, "We care about the Holinshed Chronicles because Shakespeare read them". [2]
Macbeth was a favourite of the seventeenth-century diarist Samuel Pepys, who saw the play on 5 November 1664 ("admirably acted"), 28 December 1666 ("most excellently acted"), ten days later on 7 January 1667 ("though I saw it lately, yet [it] appears a most excellent play in all respects"), on 19 April 1667 ("one of the best plays for a stage ...
Macbeth: Afrikaans Macbeth: Eitemal (Professor W. J. du P. Erlank) Cape Town: 1965 236076023 Macbeth: Deryck Uys [Johannesburg?] 2023[?] 9780639734736 TCC Press: Albanian Makbethi: Fan Stylian Noli: Pristina: 1968 503891951 Dutch Macbeth. Treurspel. Pieter Boddaert: Amsterdam: 1800 558130563 Early Dutch Books Online: Macbeth : treurspel in vijf ...
The term Henriad was popularized by Alvin Kernan in his 1969 article, "The Henriad: Shakespeare’s Major History Plays" to suggest that the four plays of the second tetralogy (Richard II; Henry IV, Part 1; Henry IV, Part 2; and Henry V), when considered together as a group, or a dramatic tetralogy, have coherence and characteristics that are the primary qualities associated with literary epic ...
H. A. Kelly in Divine Providence in the England of Shakespeare's Histories (1970) [5] examines political bias and assertions of the workings of Providence in (a) the contemporary chronicles, (b) the Tudor historians, and (c) the Elizabethan poets, notably Shakespeare in his two tetralogies, (in composition-order) Henry VI to Richard III and ...
The anonymous play The True Tragedy of Richard III (c.1590), performed in the same decade as Shakespeare's work, was probably an influence on Shakespeare. [2] Neither of the two plays places any emphasis on Richard's physical appearance, though the True Tragedy briefly mentions that he is "A man ill shaped, crooked backed, lame armed" adding ...