Richard the Third Home Page

This is the Home Page for Richard the Third. The page collects information about this work from across our site. Here you will find links to our edition; where available, you will also find links to graphic facsimiles of the books in which it was first published, a list of performances, relevant pages in the section on Shakespeare's Life and Times, and links to relevant sites on the Internet.

• Title Page
  • Richard the Third (Folio 1, 1623)
    
  • Richard the Third (Quarto 1, 1597)
    

List of book facsimiles containing the play Richard the Third

• First Folio (1623)
  Brandeis University copy from Brandeis University Library
• First Folio (1623)
  New South Wales copy from State Library of New South Wales
• Second Folio (1632)
  New South Wales copy from State Library of New South Wales
• Third Folio (1664)
  New South Wales copy from State Library of New South Wales
• Fourth Folio (1685)
  New South Wales copy from State Library of New South Wales
• Richard the Third, Quarto 1 (1597)
  Huth copy from British Library, London

List of performances related to Richard III

• Richard III (1991, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, USA)
• Richard III (1967, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, USA)
• Richard III (2000, Shakespeare on the Saskatchewan, Canada)
• Richard III (1950, USA)
• Les enfants d'Edouard (1910, André Calmettes, France)
• Richard III (1965, Michael Hayes, GB)
• Riccardo III (1981, Carmelo Bene, Italy)
• Richard III (1983, Jane Howell, GB)
• Richard III (1911, F. R. Benson, GB)
• Tower of London (1939, Fred Frank, USA)
• Tower of London (1962, Jack Bohrer, USA)
• Richard III (1964, USA)
• Looking For Richard (1996, Al Pacino, USA)
• Richard III (1995, Richard Loncraine, USA)
• Richard III (1995, Richard Loncraine, USA)
• The Street King (2002, Gavin Bedford, USA)
• Richard III (1990, Michael Bogdanov, UK)
• Richard III (1963, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, USA)
• Richard III (1970, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, USA)
• Richard III (1983, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, USA)
• 68 more performances...

Summary list of artifacts related to the play Richard III

• illustration artifacts (1)

Relevant links to other sites on the web

• Richard III Penguins Classics Teachers' Guide
  McGlinn, Jeanne M. "Teachers' Guides: Richard III: William Shakespeare." Penguin Classics Online. London: Penguin Books, 1995-2006.
• The Misogyny of Richard III in More's History of King Richard III and Shakespeare's Tragedy of King Richard the Third
  Lakowski, Ramuald I. "The Misogyny of Richard III in More's History of King Richard III and Shakespeare's Tragedy of King Richard the Third." SHAKSPER via Early Modern Literary Studies, 1992. Lakowski explores Shakespeare's interpretation of More's account of King Richard III's misogyny:
• Richard III
  The History of Richard the Third is available at Renascence Editions:
• More's Life of Richard III
  The tragicall historie of the life and reigne of Richard the third. Written by the right honorable Sir Thomas Moore, Lord Chancellor of England. In The historie of the pittiful life and unfortunate death of Edward the fifth and the then Duke of Yorke, his brother ; with, The troublesome and tyrranical government of usurping Richard the third, and his miserable end. London: T. Payne and sold by M. Young, 1641. This text can be accessed at the Furness Collection:
• Lives of Edward V and Richard III
  The historie of the pittiful life and unfortunate death of Edward the fifth and the then Duke of Yorke, his brother ; with, The troublesome and tyrranical government of usurping Richard the third, and his miserable end is available at Renascence Editions:
• More's Life of Richard III
  More, Thomas, Sir, Saint, 1478-1535. The tragicall historie of the life and reigne of Richard the third. Written by the right honorable Sir Thomas Moore, Lord Chancellor of England. In The historie of the pittiful life and unfortunate death of Edward the fifth and the then Duke of Yorke, his brother ; with, The troublesome and tyrranical government of usurping Richard the third, and his miserable end. London: T. Payne and sold by M. Young, 1641. This text is available throug the Furness Collection at:
• Richard III
  An edited version of Thomas More's History of King Richard the Third is available at Renascence Editions:
• The Richard III and Yorkist History Server
  The Richard III Society has many texts in their e-library including More's The History of King Richard III. Locate this text at:
• Holinshed's Richard III
  Holinshed, Raphael, d. 1580?. Richard the third, third sonne to Richard duke of Yorke, and vncle to Edward the fift. In The Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland. London: Printed by Henry Denham, at the expenses of Iohn Harison, George Bishop, Rafe Newberie, Henrie Denham, and Thomas Woodcocke, [1587]. This text is made available through the Furness Collection at:
• London at the Time of Richard III: Richard's arrival in 1483 - Some sights of the City
  Harris, Marion. London at the Time of Richard III: Richard's arrival in 1483 - Some sights of the City. (1994). This electronic text can be accessed at: