KING RICHARD III. William Shakespeare

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       William Shakespeare

      KING RICHARD III

      Including The Classic Biography: The Life of William Shakespeare

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      ISBN 978-80-272-3718-0

Table of Contents

       King Richard III

       Persons Represented

       ACT I

       ACT II

       ACT III

       ACT IV

       ACT V

       The Life of William Shakespeare

       PREFACE

       I—PARENTAGE AND BIRTH

       II—CHILDHOOD, EDUCATION, AND MARRIAGE

       III—THE FAREWELL TO STRATFORD

       IV—ON THE LONDON STAGE

       V.—EARLY DRAMATIC EFFORTS

       VI—THE FIRST APPEAL TO THE READING PUBLIC

       VII—THE SONNETS AND THEIR LITERARY HISTORY

       VIII—THE BORROWED CONCEITS OF THE SONNETS

       IX—THE PATRONAGE OF THE EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON

       X—THE SUPPOSED STORY OF INTRIGUE IN THE SONNETS

       XI—THE DEVELOPMENT OF DRAMATIC POWER

       XII—THE PRACTICAL AFFAIRS OF LIFE

       XIII—MATURITY OF GENIUS

       XIV—THE HIGHEST THEMES OF TRAGEDY

       XV—THE LATEST PLAYS

       XVI—THE CLOSE OF LIFE

       XVII—SURVIVORS AND DESCENDANTS

       XVIII—AUTOGRAPHS, PORTRAITS, AND MEMORIALS

       XIX—BIBLIOGRAPHY

       XX—POSTHUMOUS REPUTATION

       XXI—GENERAL ESTIMATE

       APPENDIX

      King Richard III

      Persons Represented

       Table of Contents

      KING EDWARD THE FOURTH

       Sons to the king

       EDWARD, PRINCE OF WALES,

       afterwards KING EDWARD V

       RICHARD, DUKE OF YORK

       Brothers to the king

       GEORGE, DUKE OF CLARENCE

       RICHARD, DUKE OF GLOSTER,

       afterwards KING RICHARD III

       A YOUNG SON OF CLARENCE

       HENRY, EARL OF RICHMOND,

       afterwards KING HENRY VII

       CARDINAL BOURCHIER, ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY

       THOMAS ROTHERHAM, ARCHBISHOP OF YORK

       JOHN MORTON, BISHOP OF ELY

       DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM

       DUKE OF NORFOLK

       EARL OF SURREY, his son

       EARL RIVERS, brother to King Edward’s Queen

       MARQUIS OF DORSET and LORD GREY, her sons

       EARL OF OXFORD

       LORD HASTINGS

       LORD STANLEY

       LORD LOVEL

       SIR THOMAS VAUGHAN

       SIR RICHARD RATCLIFF

       SIR WILLIAM CATESBY

       SIR JAMES TYRREL

       SIR JAMES BLOUNT

       SIR WALTER HERBERT

       SIR ROBERT BRAKENBURY, Lieutenant of the Tower

       CHRISTOPHER URSWICK, a priest

       Another Priest

       LORD MAYOR OF LONDON

       SHERIFF OF WILTSHIRE

       ELIZABETH, Queen to King Edward IV

       MARGARET, widow to King Henry VI

       DUCHESS OF YORK, mother to King Edward IV, Clarence, and Gloster

       LADY ANNE, widow to Edward, Prince of Wales, son to King Henry VI; afterwards married to the Duke of Gloster

       A YOUNG DAUGHTER OF CLARENCE

       Lords, and other Attendants; two Gentlemen, a Pursuivant, Scrivener, Citizens, Murderers, Messengers, Ghosts, Soldiers, &c.

       SCENE: England