“Now is the winter of our discontent,” Richard famously explains at the top of the play that bears his name. In Richard III, Richard is unsatisfied with his position as the subordinate younger brother to King Edward and George, Duke of Clarence. The only thing separating Richard from the throne are his brothers and their heirs. Yet, after Richard wins the crown through murder, Henry Tudor rises as a threat in the west. How will Richard hold onto his crown? A momentous history play that has determined Richard’s place in cultural memory, Shakespeare’s Richard III sees the fall of the House of York and the rise of the Tudors at the tail-end of the Wars of the Roses. The Shakescleare version of the play includes the original text alongside a modern English translation, which will equip you to decode Richard III’s most important quotes, like “My kingdom for a horse!”