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 GLOUCESTER,
         afterwards KING RICHARD III

    A YOUNG SON OF CLARENCE
         (Edward,
               Earl of Warwick)
 

    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 LOVEL

    LORD STANLEY,
           called also EARL OF DERBY

   SIR THOMAS VAUGHAN

   SIR RICHARD RATCLIFF

   SIR WILLIAM CATESBY

   SIR JAMES TYRREL

   SIR JAMES BLOUNT

   SIR WALTER HERBERT

   SIR WILLIAM BRANDON

    SIR ROBERT BRAKENBURY,
           Lieutenant of the Tower

    CHRISTOPHER URSWICK,
           a priest

   LORD MAYOR OF LONDON

   SHERIFF OF WILTSHIRE

    HASTINGS,
           a pursuivant

    TRESSEL and BERKELEY,
           gentlemen attending on Lady Anne

    ELIZABETH,
           Queen to King Edward IV

    MARGARET,
           widow of King Henry VI

    DUCHESS OF YORK,
           mother to King Edward IV

    LADY ANNE,
           widow of Edward,
         Prince of Wales,
           son to King Henry VI;
        afterwards married
               to the Duke of Gloucester

    A YOUNG DAUGHTER OF CLARENCE
         (Margaret Plantagenet,
               Countess of Salisbury)
 

    Ghosts,
           of Richard's victims

    Lords,
           Gentlemen,
         and Attendants;
        Priest,
           Scrivener,
         Page,
           Bishops,
         Aldermen,
           Citizens,
         Soldiers,
           Messengers,
         Murderers,
           Keeper

    SCENE:
        England King Richard the Third
 
  ACT I. SCENE 1.

    London.

    A street Enter RICHARD,
           DUKE OF GLOUCESTER,
         solus

    GLOUCESTER.

    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