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Richard III By William Shakespeare

Richard III is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1591. The play is an unflattering depiction of the short reign of Richard III of England. While generally classified as a history, as grouped in the First Folio, the play is sometimes called a tragedy (as in the first quarto). It picks up the story from Henry VI, Part 3 and concludes the historical series that stretches back to Richard II.

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Richard III

William Shakespeare

Published: 1591

Categorie(s): Non-Fiction, History, Fiction, Drama

Source: http://shakespeare.mit.edu/ About Shakespeare:

William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564 – died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). His surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several other poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language, and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon. At the age of 18 he married Anne Hathaway, who bore him three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Between 1585 and 1592 he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of the playing company the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, where he died three years later. Few records of Shakespeare's private life survive, and there has been considerable speculation about such matters as his sexuality, religious beliefs, and whether the works attributed to him were written by others. Shakespeare produced most of his known work between 1590 and 1613. His early plays were mainly comedies and histories, genres he raised to the peak of sophistication and artistry by the end of the sixteenth century. Next he wrote mainly tragedies until about 1608, including Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, considered some of the finest examples in the English language. In his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances, and collaborated with other playwrights. Many of his plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime, and in 1623 two of his former theatrical colleagues published the First Folio, a collected edition of his dramatic works that included all but two of the plays now recognised as Shakespeare's. Shakespeare was a respected poet and playwright in his own day, but his reputation did not rise to its present heights until the nineteenth century. The Romantics, in particular, acclaimed Shakespeare's genius, and the Victorians hero-worshipped Shakespeare with a reverence that George Bernard Shaw called "bardolatry". In the twentieth century, his work was repeatedly adopted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship and performance. His plays remain highly popular today and are consistently performed and reinterpreted in diverse cultural and political contexts throughout the world. Source: Wikipedia

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Act I

SCENE I. London. A street.

> Enter GLOUCESTER, solus

GLOUCESTER

> Now is the winter of our discontent

> Made glorious summer by this sun of York;

> And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house

> In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.

> Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths;

> Our bruised arms hung up for monuments;

> Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings,

> Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.

> Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front;

> And now, instead of mounting barded steeds

> To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,

> He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber

> To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.

> But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks,

> Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass;

> I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty

> To strut before a wanton ambling nymph;

> I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion,

> Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,

> Deformed, unfinish'd, sent before my time

> Into this breathing world, scarce half made up,

> And that so lamely and unfashionable

> That dogs bark at me as I halt by them;

> Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,

> Have no delight to pass away the time,

> Unless to spy my shadow in the sun

> And descant on mine own deformity: