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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.
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 Tragedy of Macbeth, often shortened to Macbeth (/ m ə k ˈ b ɛ θ /), is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It is thought to have been first performed in 1606 . [ a ] It dramatises the physically violent and damaging psychological effects of political ambitions to power.
Here as elsewhere, Hazlitt illuminates the characters not only by contrast with others in the same play but with characters in other plays. A lengthy passage, adapted from an 1814 drama review by Hazlitt, [121] compares Macbeth and King Richard III from Shakespeare's play of that name. Both characters "are tyrants, usurpers, murderers, both ...
Richard III is a 1955 British Technicolor film adaptation of William Shakespeare's historical play of the same name, also incorporating elements from his Henry VI, Part 3. It was directed and produced by Laurence Olivier , who also played the lead role .
The first series of The Black Adder (TV, United Kingdom, 1983), written by Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson, is a parody of Shakespeare's plays, particularly Macbeth, Richard III and Henry V. Men of Respect (United States, 1991) is a retelling of the Macbeth story as a Mafia power struggle in New York City , in modern English, but closely ...
The first recorded works of Shakespeare are Richard III and the three parts of Henry VI, written in the early 1590s during a vogue for historical drama. Shakespeare's plays are difficult to date precisely, however, [ 108 ] [ 109 ] and studies of the texts suggest that Titus Andronicus , The Comedy of Errors , The Taming of the Shrew , and The ...