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SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. 1564-1616.
The Tragedy of Richard the Third: with the landing of Earle Richmond, and the Battell at Boswoth Field. [London: Printed by Thomas Cotes, 1632.]

6 March 2020, 10:00 EST
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SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. 1564-1616.

The Tragedy of Richard the Third: with the landing of Earle Richmond, and the Battell at Boswoth Field. [London: Printed by Thomas Cotes, 1632.]
Folio (310 x 218 mm). 32 pp, numbered 173 - 204. Some light staining. Modern ochre morocco backed cloth, small pencil notation to upper corner of recto of each leaf, minor soiling to leaves, wormhole to one leaf.

THE 1632 PRINTING OF SHAKESPEARE'S RICHARD THE THIRD, extracted from the Second Folio. "Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this sun of York, and all the clouds that loured upon our House in the deep bosom of the ocean buried." Through the years, the character of Richard III has proven an iconic anti-hero of English literature, lending to a number of various and effective adaptations. The play brings to a close Shakespeare's eight play sequence chronicling the War of the Roses.

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