William Shakespeare's Richard III

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/William_Shakespeare's_Richard_III
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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:play
gptkbp:adaptedInto gptkb:film
gptkb:opera
gptkb:television
gptkbp:author gptkb:William_Shakespeare
gptkbp:awardReceived Laurence Olivier's 1955 film adaptation won BAFTA Award
gptkbp:category Elizabethan theatre
Shakespearean tragedy
Shakespearean history play
gptkbp:featuresCharacter gptkb:Queen_Margaret
gptkb:Richmond
gptkb:Lord_Stanley
gptkb:Queen_Elizabeth
gptkb:Lord_Hastings
gptkb:Lady_Anne
Holy Roman Emperor
gptkbp:firstPerformed circa 1593
gptkbp:genre history play
gptkbp:historicalSource gptkb:Holinshed's_Chronicles
gptkb:Sir_Thomas_More's_History_of_King_Richard_III
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label William Shakespeare's Richard III
gptkbp:influencedBy Tudor historiography
gptkbp:language English
gptkbp:mainCharacter gptkb:Richard_III
gptkbp:notableAdaptation gptkb:Al_Pacino's_Looking_for_Richard
gptkb:Laurence_Olivier's_1955_film
Ian McKellen's 1995 film
gptkbp:notableQuote A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!
Now is the winter of our discontent
gptkbp:numberOfActs 5
gptkbp:partOf gptkb:Shakespeare's_first_tetralogy
gptkbp:prequel gptkb:Henry_VI,_Part_3
gptkbp:publishedIn gptkb:First_Folio,_1623
First Quarto, 1597
gptkbp:setting gptkb:England
gptkbp:subject Wars of the Roses
rise and fall of Richard III
gptkbp:theme betrayal
power
revenge
conscience
guilt
evil
legitimacy
manipulation
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Laza_Kostić
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6