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PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME,

PATERNOSTER ROW.

WILLIAM SAVAGE, PRINTER,

LONDON.

REMARKS.

Shakspeare's historical plays are particularly valuable, wherein faithful history is combined with transcendant poetry.

The present play comprises every incident of note in the life and death of King Richard the Third, and contains a period of fourteen years.

Mr. Malone says of this drama-"From the many allusions to it in books of that age, when it was first acted, and the number of editions it passed through, I suspect it was more often represented, and more admired, than any of our author's tragedies."

Queen Elizabeth, who seems to have been a judge of theatrical, as well as of political, measures highly admired the tragedy of Richard III. and it was played frequently by her royal command.

Her majesty was ever most gracious to the author and all his productions; but it is by some critics imagined that her partiality to this drama, arose from the particular gratification, of beholding her grandfather, Richmond, placed in the most exalted and amiable situation, in which Henry the Seventh could ever be shown.

In the reign of William and Mary, the whole first

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