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Richard III

William Shakespeare

Form
Form Play
Year
Year 1592
Pages
Pages 300

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.

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