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How is this book unique?Unabridged (100% Original content)Formatted for e-readerFont adjustments & biography includedIllustratedAbout King Richard III By William ShakespeareRichard III is a historical play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1592. It depicts the Machiavellian rise to power and subsequent short reign of Richard III of England. The play is grouped among the histories in the First Folio and is most often classified as such. Occasionally, however, as in the quarto edition, it is termed a tragedy. Richard III concludes Shakespeare's first tetralogy (also containing Henry VI parts 1–3).It is the second longest play in the canon after Hamlet, and is the longest of the First Folio, whose version of Hamlet is shorter than its Quarto counterpart. The play is rarely performed unabridged; often, certain peripheral characters are removed entirely. In such instances extra lines are often invented or added from elsewhere in the sequence to establish the nature of characters' relationships. A further reason for abridgment is that Shakespeare assumed that his audiences would be familiar with the Henry VI plays, and frequently made indirect references to events in them, such as Richard's murder of Henry VI or the defeat of Henry's queen, Margaret.

Lady Anne attends the corpse of Henry VI, with Trestle and Berkeley, going from St Paul's Cathedral. She bids them set down the "honourable load", then laments. Richard appears, and Lady Anne says that "Henry's wounds [...] bleed afresh". He confesses the murder, and she spits at him; he offers himself to her sword, but she drops it; he offers to kill himself at her order, but she accepts his ring. Richard exults at having won her over so; and tells the audience that he will discard her once she has served her purpose.The atmosphere at court is poisonous: The established nobles are at odds with the upwardly mobile relatives of Queen Elizabeth, a hostility fueled by Richard's machinations. Queen Margaret, Henry VI's widow, returns, though banished, and warns the squabbling nobles about Richard, cursing extensively. The nobles, all Yorkists, unite against this last Lancastrian, and ignore the warnings.Richard orders two murderers to kill Clarence in the tower. Clarence, meanwhile, relates a distressing dream to his keeper, before going to sleep. The murderers arrive with a warrant, and the keeper relinquishes his office. While the murderers are pondering what to do, Clarence wakes, recognises their purpose, and pleads with them; presuming that Edward has offered them payment, he tells them to go to Gloucester, who will reward them better for having kept him alive. One of the murderers explains that Gloucester hates him, and sent them. Pleading again, he is eventually interrupted, with "Look behind you, my lord", and stabbing.

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GLOUCESTER. Now is the winter of our discontentMade glorious summer by this sun of York;And all the clouds that lour'd upon our houseIn 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 chang'd to merry meetings,Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.Grim-visag'd war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front,And now, instead of mounting barbed steedsTo fright the souls of fearful adversaries,He capers nimbly in a lady's chamberTo the lascivious pleasing of a lute.But I-that am not shap'd for sportive tricks,Nor made to court an amorous looking-glassI-that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majestyTo strut before a wanton ambling nymphI-that am curtail'd of this fair proportion,Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my timeInto this breathing world scarce half made up,And that so lamely and unfashionableThat dogs bark at me as I halt by themWhy, I, in this weak piping time of peace,Have no delight to pass away the time,Unless to spy my shadow in the sunAnd descant on mine own deformity.And therefore, since I cannot prove a loverTo entertain these fair well-spoken days,I am determined to prove a villainAnd hate the idle pleasures of these days.Plots have I laid, inductions dangerous,By drunken prophecies, libels, and dreams,To set my brother Clarence and the KingIn deadly hate the one against the other;

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