Richard III
William Shakespeare
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(Adamant Media Corporation, July 23, 2001)
The final play in the Henry VI tetralogy (and the one most frequently performed), Richard III dramatizes the Duke of Gloucester's rise to the throne of England and depicts the bloodbath that he leaves in his wake. One of the finest of Shakespeare's early plays, Richard III's depiction of a conniving politician's rise and fall, along with its concurrent musings on fate, prefigures the later play Macbeth.