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| Act
I |
| Scene
1 - Setting the scene: introducing Richard
(currently called Gloucester), Clarence and
Hastings. |
| Scene
2 - Richard makes a play for Anne. |
| Scene
3 - Old Queen Margaret has a go at Richard. He
arranges the murder of Clarence. |
Scene
4 - Clarence's murder (the butt of malmsey).
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| Act
II |
| Scene
1 - King Edward thinks he's got everyone to play
nice, then he finds out about Clarence's death and
wanders offstage to snuff it. |
| Scene
2 - The Women get upset. |
| Scene
3 - Street corner gossip - what the plebs think. |
Scene
4 - The Queen does a runner.
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| Act
III |
| Scene
1 - Duke of York makes fun of Richard. The thot
plickens. Catesby sent to recruit Hastings. |
| Scene
2 - Hastings won't play. |
| Scene
3 - Rivers, Grey and Vaughn get the chop. |
| Scene
4 - Hastings gets the chop. |
| Scene
5 - Richard and Buckingham tell everyone that
Hastings was a Bad Man and that the Prince is a
bastard. |
| Scene
6 - The Scrivener tells us that this is all A
Bad Thing. |
Scene
7 - Buckingham publicly begs Richard to be King.
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| Act
IV |
| Scene
1 - The Women find out about the coronation. |
| Scene
2 - When Richard suggests that Buckingham murder
the Prince, he wimps out and does a runner. Tyrell
does it. |
| Scene
3 - Rumours of rebellion. |
| Scene
4 - The Women curse everything and everyone.
With Anne dead, Richard tries to marry his niece,
Elizabeth. It rains on the rebels. |
Scene
5 - People start defecting.
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| Act
V |
| Scene
1 - Buckingham is caught, and Guess What? |
| Scene
2 - Henry Tudor does his rebel leader bit. |
| Scene
3 - Bosworth - ghosts, speeches, alarums and
excursions. |
| Scene
4 - A Norse! A Norse! |
| Scene
5 - Richard gets the chop. Henry marries
Elizabeth and launches the Tudor Dynasty. |
