In the Library
Richard III
William Shakespeare, 1597
- Form
- Form Play
- Reading time
- Reading time 2 hours
- Chapters
- Chapters 25
- Length
- Length 31k words
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About the book
A hunchbacked duke addresses the audience in the first lines and announces that he is determined to prove a villain, since the winter of his discontent has passed and peace has no use for him. William Shakespeare wrote this history play around 1592, the close of his first tetralogy, and gave the English stage one of its most seductive monologists. Richard murders his way to the crown, woos a widow over her husband's coffin, smothers nephews, and lets the audience in on every step. Margaret of Anjou stalks the corridors cursing each victim in turn, and her curses come true. On Bosworth Field a king who has charmed everyone meets a horse he does not have, and the kingdom collects itself in his absence.