Richard III
T371615820
Or by its full first quarto title of
The Tragedy of King Richard the Third, containing his trecherous plots against his brother Clarence: the pittiful murder of his innocent nephews: his tyrannical usurpation: with the whole course of his detested life and most deserved death. Of course, nowadays Richard is seen as much maligned but the image of the hunchback reciting "Now is the winter of our discontent" will remain with us for a long time. Essentially the plot sees Richard assuming the throne after Edward IV and disposing of all those with greater right. He is finally killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field after having pronounced that other great line "A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!" (shouldn't that be "An horse!"?).
Archive :: production:T371615820, play:S4765, venue:V333
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Production details
In this anarchic retelling of Shakespeare's blackest comedy, 8 actors tell the story of the most infamous English monarch. Follow our homicidal hero on a blistering journey from the political wilderness to the throne and all the way to a SPOILER ALERT car park in Leicester.
