I, that am rudely stamp’d, and want love’s majesty Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,īut I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Grim-visaged war hath smooth’d his wrinkled front Īnd now, instead of mounting barded steeds Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.

Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings, Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths Made glorious summer by this sun of York Īnd all the clouds that lour’d upon our house All Acts and Scenes are listed on the original Richard III text page, or linked to from the bottom of this page. Shakespeare’s original Richard III text is long, so we’ve split the text into one Scene per page. This page contains the original text of Richard III, Act 1, Scene 1. Each Shakespeare’s play name links to a range of resources about each play: Character summaries, plot outlines, example essays and famous quotes, soliloquies and monologues: All’s Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry IV Part 1 Henry IV Part 2 Henry VIII Henry VI Part 1 Henry VI Part 2 Henry VI Part 3 Henry V Julius Caesar King John King Lear Loves Labour’s Lost Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles Richard II Richard III Romeo & Juliet The Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Troilus & Cressida Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Winter’s Tale This list of Shakespeare plays brings together all 38 plays in alphabetical order. Plays It is believed that Shakespeare wrote 38 plays in total between 15.

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