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The Tragedy of King Richard the Third

By William Shakespeare

  • editors: Craig A. Berry, Martin Mueller, and Clifford Wulfman
  • technical editors: Jeffrey Cousens and Bill Parod
  • editorial assistants: Lawrence Berland, Hilary Bina, Katherine Gould, Kreg Segal, Nicholas Terrell

The WordHoard Shakespeare is a joint project of the Perseus Project at Tufts University, The Northwestern University Library, and Northwestern University Academic Technologies. It is derived from The Globe Shakespeare , the one-volume version of the Cambridge Shakespeare , edited by W. G. Clark, J. Glover, and W. A. Wright (1891-3). The Internet Shakespeare editions of the quartos and folios have been consulted to create a modern text that observes as closely as possible the morphological and prosodic practices of the earliest editions. Spellings, especially of contracted and hyphenated forms, have been standardized across the corpus. The text has been fully lemmatized and morphosyntactically tagged.

© 2003. The copyright to The WordHoard Shakespeare is owned jointly by Northwestern University and Tufts University. The WordHoard Shakespeare is provided for free solely for non-commercial use by students, scholars, and the public. Any commercial use or publication of it, in whole or in part, without prior written authorization of the copyright holders is strictly prohibited.

The Wordhoard Shakespeare is derived from, but not identical with, The Globe Shakespeare , the one-volume version of the Cambridge Shakespeare (1891-3) edited by W. G. Clark, J. Glover, and W. A. Wright.

  • Act 1

    • Act 1, Scene 1

      London. A street.

      Speakers: Brakenbury, Clarence, Gloucester, Hastings, King Richard

    • Act 1, Scene 2

      The same. Another street.

      Speakers: Anne, Gentleman, Gloucester

    • Act 1, Scene 3

      The palace.

      Speakers: Buckingham, Catesby, Dorset, Elizabeth, First Murderer, Gloucester, Grey, Hastings, Margaret, Rivers, Stanley

    • Act 1, Scene 4

      London. The Tower.

      Speakers: Both, Both., Brakenbury, Clarence, First Murderer, Second Murderer

  • Act 2

    • Act 2, Scene 1

      London. The palace.

      Speakers: Buckingham, Dorset, Elizabeth, Gloucester, Hastings, King Edward, Rivers, Stanley

    • Act 2, Scene 2

      The palace.

      Speakers: Boy, Buckingham, Children, Dorset, Duchess, Elizabeth, Elizabeth and Duchess, Girl, Gloucester, Hastings, Rivers

    • Act 2, Scene 3

      London. A street.

      Speakers: First Citizen, Second Citizen, Third Citizen

    • Act 2, Scene 4

      London. The palace.

      Speakers: Archbishop, Duchess, Elizabeth, Messenger, York

  • Act 3

    • Act 3, Scene 1

      London. A street.

      Speakers: Buckingham, Cardinal, Catesby, Gloucester, Hastings, King Richard, Mayor, Prince Edward, York

    • Act 3, Scene 2

      Before Lord Hastings' house.

      Speakers: Another priest, Buckingham, Catesby, Hastings, Messenger, Stanley, a Pursuivant

    • Act 3, Scene 3

      Pomfret Castle.

      Speakers: Grey, Ratcliff, Rivers, Vaughan

    • Act 3, Scene 4

      The Tower of London.

      Speakers: Buckingham, Ely, Gloucester, Hastings, Lovel, Ratcliff, Stanley

    • Act 3, Scene 5

      The Tower-walls.

      Speakers: Buckingham, Gloucester, Lovel, Mayor

    • Act 3, Scene 6

      The same. A street.

      Speakers: Scivener.

    • Act 3, Scene 7

      Baynard's Castle.

      Speakers: Buckingham, Catesby, Citizen, Gloucester, Mayor, Mayor and Citizen

  • Act 4

    • Act 4, Scene 1

      Before the Tower.

      Speakers: Anne, Brakenbury, Dorset, Duchess, Elizabeth, Stanley

    • Act 4, Scene 2

      London. The palace.

      Speakers: Buckingham, Catesby, King Richard, Page, Stanley, Tyrrel

    • Act 4, Scene 3

      The same.

      Speakers: Catesby, King Richard, Tyrrel

    • Act 4, Scene 4

      Before the palace.

      Speakers: Catesby, Duchess, Elizabeth, Fourth Messenger, King Richard, Margaret, Messenger, Ratcliff, Second Messenger, Stanley, Third Messenger

    • Act 4, Scene 5

      Lord Derby's house.

      Speakers: Christopher, Stanley

  • Act 5

    • Act 5, Scene 1

      Salisbury. An Open place.

      Speakers: Buckingham, Sheriff

    • Act 5, Scene 2

      The camp near Tamworth.

      Speakers: Blount, Herbert, Oxford, Richmond

    • Act 5, Scene 3

      Bosworth Field.

      Speakers: All., Blount, Catesby, Ghost, Ghost of Grey, Ghost of Rivers, King Richard, Lords., Messenger, Norfolk, Ratcliff, Richmond, Stanley, Surrey, Vaughan

    • Act 5, Scene 4

      Another part of the field. Alarum: excursions.

      Speakers: Catesby, King Richard

    • Act 5, Scene 5

      Another part of the field. Alarum.

      Speakers: Richmond, Stanley