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This timeless tragedy follows the bloody path of the "rudely stamped" Richard, Duke of Gloucester, who uses his murderous guile to achieve the throne of England. This edition features an overview of Shakespeare's works by Sylvan Barnet, former Chairman of the English Department at Tufts University, as well as a comprehensive stage and screen history, dramatic criticism from the past and present, and sources from which Shakespeare derived this great work.

Richard III

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Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.

Richard IIIis one of the finest of Shakespeare's historical dramas. Although it has a huge cast, Richard himself, gleefully wicked, charismatically Machiavellian, always dominates the play: a role to gratify such leading actors as David Garrick, Laurence Olivier, Anthony Sher, Ian McKellen and Al Pacino.

Since, in real life, political Machiavellianism is never out of date, Richard IIIremains perennially topical. Numerous revivals on stage and screen have demonstrated the enduring cogency of this drama about the lethally corrupting quest for power.

Richard IIIis the twenty-first play in the Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series. The Times Literary Supplementsays: 'Many students and ordinary readers will be grateful to Watts and his publishers for making such useful editions available at such low cost.'

Critical commentary and historical background accompany the text of the tragedy of Richard III's seizure of power and eventual defeat

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