It is labelled a history in the First Folio, and is usually considered one, but it is sometimes called a tragedy, as in the quarto edition.

Richard III is a play by William Shakespeare. The quarto edition omits the deposition scene in Act IV, almost certainly as a result of censorship. George Frederick Cooke as Richard III by Thomas Sully. Grim-visag'd war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front, And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. Richard II, chronicle play in five acts by William Shakespeare, written in 159596 and published in a quarto edition in 1597 and in the First Folio of 1623. Rebellious nobles rally to Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond. He also disposes of Anne, his wife, in order to court his niece, Elizabeth of York. Richard then stages events that yield him the crown.After Richard’s coronation, he has the boys secretly killed. 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. Richard houses the Prince and his younger brother in the Tower. Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. Enter RICHARD, DUKE OF GLOUCESTER, solus GLOUCESTER. The Tragedy of King Richard II, by William Shakespeare, is the first of the history series that continues with Parts 1 and 2 of King Henry IV and with The.

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