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THE LIFE AND DEATH OF KING RICHARD III
by William Shakespeare

Persons Represented.
KING EDWARD THE FOURTH
Sons to the king EDWARD, PRINCE OF WALES afterwards KING
EDWARD V RICHARD, DUKE OF YORK
Brothers to the king GEORGE, DUKE OF CLARENCE RICHARD,
DUKE OF GLOSTER, afterwards KING RICHARD III
A YOUNG SON OF CLARENCE HENRY, EARL OF RICHMOND,
afterwards KING HENRY VII CARDINAL BOURCHIER,
ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY THOMAS ROTHERHAM,
ARCHBISHOP OF YORK JOHN MORTON, BISHOP OF ELY
DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM DUKE OF NORFOLK EARL OF
SURREY, his son EARL RIVERS, brother to King Edward's Queen
MARQUIS OF DORSET and LORD GREY, her sons EARL OF
OXFORD LORD HASTINGS LORD STANLEY LORD LOVEL SIR
THOMAS VAUGHAN SIR RICHARD RATCLIFF SIR WILLIAM
CATESBY SIR JAMES TYRREL SIR JAMES BLOUNT SIR
WALTER HERBERT SIR ROBERT BRAKENBURY, Lieutenant of
the Tower CHRISTOPHER URSWICK, a priest Another Priest LORD
MAYOR OF LONDON SHERIFF OF WILTSHIRE
ELIZABETH, Queen to King Edward IV MARGARET, widow to
King Henry VI DUCHESS OF YORK, mother to King Edward IV,
Clarence, and Gloster LADY ANNE, widow to Edward, Prince of
Wales, son to King Henry VI; afterwards married to the Duke of
Gloster A YOUNG DAUGHTER OF CLARENCE
Lords, and other Attendants; two Gentlemen, a Pursuivant, Scrivener,
Citizens, Murderers, Messengers, Ghosts, Soldiers, &c.
SCENE: England
King Richard the Third
ACT I.
SCENE I. London. A street
[Enter GLOSTER.]

GLOSTER 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. 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. 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. But I,--that am not shap'd for sportive
tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely
stamp'd, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling
nymph; I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by
dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this
breathing world scarce half made up, And that so lamely and
unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them;-- Why, I, in this
weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time,
Unless to spy my shadow in the sun, And descant on mine own
deformity: And therefore,--since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain
these fair well-spoken days,-- I am determined to prove