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Richard III

First published: 1592
Pages: 144

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Dramatis Personae
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Act 1
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Act 2
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Act 3
45:28
Act 4
49:23
Act 5
28:01

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Deformed, brilliant, and utterly without conscience, Richard of Gloucester schemes his way to the English crown across the bodies of everyone who stands between him and the throne. Shakespeare hands him one of the great opening speeches in the language, "Now is the winter of our discontent," and lets him confide his plots straight to the audience, making us complicit in murders that include his own brother, his young nephews, and eventually his wife. The play closes the cycle of the Wars of the Roses on Bosworth Field, where Richard's crimes finally run him down. Part history, part study of a charismatic tyrant, it stays one of the most performed and quoted works in the canon. This free edition is available as a PDF and EPUB.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (1564–1616) was an English playwright and poet who lived during the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and authored approximately 37 plays and 154 sonnets that explore themes of love, power, ambition, and human nature.