With the aid of the Duke of Buckingham, and to the great delight of Lord Hastings and the rest of nobility, upon Edward IV's death his younger brother, Richard, after taking a brief detour to suddenly woo the widow of a man he killed, quickly has several of the Queen's relatives arrested and executed and sends the young princes off to the Tower of London. They all do, and everyone lives happily ever after.

Hoping to prevent the generation of dynastic warfare that ended with his (second) ascension to the throne from starting up again, Edward calls together all of England's powerful factions and makes them shake hands and promise to be nice to each other and his young son once he croaks.

With the possible exception of The Taming of the Shrew, this is the earliest-written of William Shakespeare's plays to still be commonly performed today. In Which Richard, Duke of Gloucester, decides to become king by Being Extremely Evil. To entertain these fair well-spoken days,Īnd hate the idle pleasures of these days. Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace,Īnd therefore, since I cannot prove a lover

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