num_pages: 208
description: There are 2,000 verbal differences between the text of the First Quarto of Shakespeare's Richard III (1597) and the version in the First Folio (1623). In this Quarto edition the text is accompanied by a collation of variant readings and substantial textual notes. Peter Davison argues that Shakespeare's company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, used a memorially reconstructed text of Richard III during a touring performance of the play, and that text provided the manuscript for the 1597 Quarto. The result is a breakthrough in textual studies.
language: English
title: The First Quarto of King Richard III
titlecomplete: The First Quarto of King Richard III (The New Cambridge Shakespeare: The Early Quartos)
characters: Page to Richard III, John, a Priest, Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, Elizabeth of York, John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk, Tressel, gentleman attending Lady Anne, 2nd Citizen (Richard III), Pursuivant, William, Lord Hastings, Sir Walter Herbert, Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York, Jane Shore, Sir James Tyrrel, Thomas, Lord Stanley, Earl of Derby, 2nd Murderer (Richard III), Berkeley, gentleman attending Lady Anne, Sir Richard Ratcliffe, Cecily Neville, Duchess of York, Sir William Brandon, Cardinal Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury, John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, Elizabeth Woodville, John Dighton, Margaret of Anjou, Sir Thomas Grey, Marquess of Dorset, Sir Richard Grey, Lord Grey, Sir William Catesby, Thomas Rotherham, Archbishop of York, Sheriff (Richard III), Edward IV of England, George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence, Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey, 1st Citizen (Richard III), Edward V of England, Henry VII of England, Scrivener, Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, Francis Lovell, 9th Baron Lovell, 6th Baron Holand, Edward Plantagenet, Miles Forrest, Edmund Shaa, Lord Mayor of London, Richard III of England, Edward Plantagenet, Earl of Warwick, Sir James Blunt, 1st Murderer (Richard III), Margaret Plantagenet, Keeper of the Tower, Third Citizen (Richard III), Lady Anne Neville, Sir Christopher Urswick, John Morton, Bishop of Ely, Sir Robert Brakenbury, Sir Thomas Vaughan, Henry VI of England
genres: Fiction, Plays, Theatre, Classics, Drama, Historical, Historical Fiction, Literature, Poetry, School
ratings_count: 52277
places: Tower of London, London, England, Bosworth Field
series: Wars of the Roses, Shakespeare's Minor Tetralogy
publisher: Cambridge University Press