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Richard III
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Shakespearean history play
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Richard III – William Shakespeare
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- #2257
- Author
- William Shakespeare
- Genre
- historical play
- Main subject
- Richard III of England
- Depicts
- Richard III of England
- Image
- Second Folio Title Page of Richard III.jpg
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- depicted by
- Richard III
- derivative work
- The Hollow Crown
- title
- Richard III
- work available at URL
- www.projekt-gutenberg.org/shakespr/richard3/richard3.html
- Commons category
- Richard III (play)
- language of work or name
- English language
- inception
- 1593-00-00
- form of creative work
- play
- time period
- Renaissance
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Encyclopedic overview
George Frederick Cooke as Richard III, by Thomas Sully (1811–1812) The Tragedy of Richard the Third, often shortened to Richard III, is a play by William Shakespeare, which depicts the Machiavellian rise to power and subsequent short reign of King Richard III of England.
It was probably written c. 1592–1594. It is labelled a history in the First Folio and is usually considered one. In the quarto edition and elsewhere it is a listed as tragedy given its meditations on conscience, decision making, and death. Richard III concludes Shakespeare's first tetralogy which also contains Henry VI, Part 1, Henry VI, Part 2, and Henry VI, Part 3.
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