6/27/2023 0 Comments Richard iii full play![]() ![]() So in the original chronicle, the horse was brought to Richard in order to spirit him away from the battle to live another day but in Shakespeare’s version, Richard calls for a horse, not so that he might make an escape but so that he might indeed, as in the chronicle, bring the war to an end of die in the attempt. ![]() ![]() However, Hall goes on to note that Richard rejected this idea, since he was determined to ‘make an end of all battles or else there finish his life’. They began ∣ ne to suspect fraude and to smell treason, and not only exhorted but de ∣ terminatly aduysed hym to saue hym selfe by flyght: and when the losse of the battayle was imminent and apparante, they brought to hym a swyfte and a lyght horse to conuey hym awaie. ![]()
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