Premise: Richard III is a historical play by William Shakespeare , believed to have been written in approximately 1592 . It is the second longest play in the canon after Hamlet , and is the longest of the First Folio , whose version of Hamlet is shorter than its Quarto counterpart . The plays written by English poet , playwright , and actor William Shakespeare ( 1564 -- 1616 ) have the reputation of being among the greatest in the English language and in Western literature .
Hypothesis: Richard III is the second shortest of Shakespeare's plays.
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