Richard III is certainly a brief history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1591, depicting the Machiavellian rise to power and subsequent short reign of Richard III of England. The play is grouped among the histories in the First Folio and is most often classified therefore.The play begins with Richard describing the accession towards the throne of his sibling, King Edward IV of England, eldest son of the late Richard, Duke of York.Now could be the wintertime of our discontentMade on the subject of Richard III glorious summer by this sunlight of York;And all the clouds that lour’d upon our houseIn the deep bosom from the ocean buried.(‘sun of York’ is certainly a punning mention of the badge from the ‘blazing sun,’ which Edward IV adopted, and ‘child of York’, i.e., the kid of the Duke of York.)The talk reveals Richard’s jealousy and ambition, simply because his brother, Ruler Edward the Fourth rules the country successfully. Richard can be an unpleasant hunchback, describing himself as ‘rudely stamp’d’ and ‘deformed, unfinish’d’, who cannot ‘strut before a wanton ambling nymph.’ He responds to the anguish of his condition with an outcast’s credo: ‘I am identified to prove a villain / And hate the idle pleasures of these days.’ Richard plots to have his sibling Clarence, who stands before him in the line of succession, conducted towards the Tower of London more than a prophecy he fed towards the King; that ‘G of Edward’s heirs the murderer shall end up being’, which the ruler interprets as discussing George of Clarence (although the audience may later realise from Richard’s love of irony that it had been perhaps a mention of himself, Richard of Gloucester).Richard following ingratiates himself with ‘the Lady Anne’-Anne Neville, widow from the Lancastrian Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales. Richard confides towards the target audience:’I’ll marry Warwick’s youngest daughter.What, though I kill’d her hubby and his father?’A gripping starting to such a tumultuous tale…