Richard III (History)
By William Shakespeare (1593)
The crooked, brilliant villain of the Wars of the Roses: from 'Now is the winter of our discontent' to the Princes in the Tower, the ghosts on the eve of battle, and Bosworth Field. Dramatis Personae: Richard Duke of Gloucester, Queen Margaret, Lady Anne, Buckingham, Richmond.
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Week 1 — Act I, Sc 1: The Winter of Our Discontent
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Week 1 — Act I, Sc 1: The Winter of Our Discontent
Scene Summary & Living Narrative: Richard opens the play alone, declaring that because he is deformed and cannot play the lover in peacetime, he is determined to prove a villain.
Key Quotation for Recitation & Copywork: 'Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of York.'
[Public Domain: William Shakespeare, First Folio / Globe Edition.]
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Week 1 — Act I, Sc 1: The Winter of Our Discontent
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Week 2 — Act I, Sc 2–3: Wooing Lady Anne over the Corpse
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Week 3 — Act I, Sc 4: The Drowning in the Malmsey-Butt
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Week 4 — Act II, Sc 1–4: King Edward's Death & The Little Princes
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Week 5 — Act III, Sc 1–3: The Strawberries of Ely & Hastings Beheaded
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Week 6 — Act III, Sc 4–7: Buckingham and the Prayer Book
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Week 7 — Act IV, Sc 1–3: The Smothering of the Little Princes
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Week 8 — Act IV, Sc 4: The Cursing Queens
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Week 9 — Act IV, Sc 5 & Act V, Sc 1: Buckingham on the Scaffold
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Week 10 — Act V, Sc 2–3 (Part I): The Tents on Bosworth Field
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Week 11 — Act V, Sc 3 (Part II): The Midnight Visit of the Ghosts
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Week 12 — Act V, Sc 4–5: A Horse! A Horse! & The Red Rose and White
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