How is this book unique?
Dramatizes Richard's rise to the British throne and his subsequent downfall, and includes criticism and notes on the play's text.
Expanded endnotes include extensive essay-writing guidance for 'King Richard III' and Shakespeare, and extended glossaries are aligned with the play text for easy reference.
Other works cited and general references Abbott Adelman Alexander Arber Barton and Hall Bentley BoswellStone Braunmuller Brewer Bullough Cam. Campbell Capell Chambers Churchill Cibber E. A. Abbott, A Shakespearian Grammar, 3rd edn, ...
[The Ghosts of RIVERS, GREY, and VAUGHAN rise.] GHOST OF RIVERS [To KINGRICHARD.] Let me sit heavy in thy soul to morrow, Rivers thatdied atPomfret! despair anddie! GHOST OF GREY [To KING RICHARD.] Think uponGrey, andlet thy soul ...
Final play in Shakespeare's masterly dramatization of the struggle for power between the Houses of York and Lancaster.
Presents the full text of the famous William Shakespeare play and includes classroom activities, endnotes, and guidance for essay writing on the stagecraft, writing, language, and themes of the play.
Richard the Third takes up the action from Henry VI, Part Three. Edward IV has grown ill, and will not live much longer.... Richard III (the Duke of Gloucester) still...
Richard III belongs to Shakespeare's folio of King Richard plays, and is the longest of his plays after Hamlet.
... naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n forth of holy writ , And seem a saint when most I play the devil . Enter two MURDERERS But soft , here come my executioners - How now , my hardy , stout , resolvèd mates , Are you now going to ...
The edition also provides a clear and authoritative playtext, edited to the most rigorous standards of scholarship, with detailed notes and commentary on the same page.