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![]() ![]() A further reason for abridgment is that Shakespeare assumed his audiences' familiarity with his Henry VI plays, frequently referring to these plays. In such cases, extra lines are often invented or added from elsewhere to establish the nature of the characters' relationships. The play is often abridged for brevity, and peripheral characters removed. It is the second longest play in the Shakespearean canon and is the longest of the First Folio, whose version of Hamlet, otherwise the longest, is shorter than its quarto counterpart. Richard III concludes Shakespeare's first tetralogy (also containing Henry VI, Part 1, Henry VI, Part 2, and Henry VI, Part 3) and depicts the Machiavellian rise to power and subsequent short reign of King Richard III of England. It is labelled a history in the First Folio, and is usually considered one, but it is sometimes called a tragedy, as in the quarto edition. ![]() Richard III is a play by William Shakespeare. George Frederick Cooke as Richard III by Thomas Sully ![]()
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