Title: Richard the Third (Quarto 1, 1597)

Author: William Shakespeare

Editor: Adrian Kiernander

Coordinating Editor: Michael Best

Textual Editor: Eric Rasmussen

Associate Textual Editor: Don Bailey

Research Assistant: Alan Galey

Editorial principles and publishing history: The transcripts presented here follow the Quarto as exactly as an electronic version permits; spelling follows the original, with no attempt to correct errors; word spacing is normalized; and modern forms are substituted for letters and ligatures that have no modern equivalent in current browsers (for example, the long 's').

This publication has been fully peer reviewed.