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Richard III (1995)

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Richard III (1995)

Kevin Kline as Richard III wears a dark, ornate costume and crown while seated on stage at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park, with set pieces visible in the background.

James William Wallack as Gloucester in Richard III

David Garrick as Richard III

David Garrick in a 1746 engraving by William Hogarth

Listen to a commentary on the rivalry between Junius Brutus Booth and Edmund Kean competing as interpreters of William Shakespeare's Richard III in the early 19th century

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Battle of Bosworth Field, August, 22 1485, part of War of the Roses. Richard III, last Yorkist king of England from 1483 on white horse.

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